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> uploading the end result onto some sort of shared AI training set

Does Copilot use the data it collects for training their AI? From their terms [1]

> GitHub Copilot does not use these URLs, file paths, or snippets collected in your telemetry as suggestions for other users of GitHub Copilot. This information is treated as confidential information and accessed on a need-to-know basis.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/github-copilot-tel...

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> when you edit files with the GitHub Copilot extension/plugin enabled, file content snippets, suggestions, and any modifications to suggestions will be shared with GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI

You don't even need to have a git repo initialized, or even have the source be on github. You literally just need to be signed on - they made a vim plugin - and copilot will suck up all the locally edited files as well.

> for other users

So someone just needs access to your account to get snippets from your private code.

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