Codeium Chat – Free ChatGPT for Your IDE

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DO NOT USE THIS.

They use OpenAI APIs, which means they're sending your code to a company that doesn't guarantee your privacy.

If you work for almost any real company, you can and should be fired for uploading their code to an untrusted cloud that may regurgitate secrets to other users.

Anshul from the Codeium team here! As our FAQs clearly state, only Chat currently uses OpenAI APIs - our flagship Autocomplete capability (think free Github Copilot) uses proprietary in-house trained models and no APIs. We are upfront about this and because we want to guarantee users’ code security preferences, if you have disabled code snippet telemetry, we actually do not allow you to use Chat for this exact reason - we cannot guarantee what OpenAI does with your data, and we never want to accidentally expose this.

We are working on building our own models for Chat to remove this dependency, so you can use Chat while still guaranteeing privacy.

Oh and none of this affects Autocomplete, so downloading Codeium and disabling code snippet telemetry will still give users tons of value :)

So your users are or aren't sending code fragments to your servers?

It doesn't matter if the model is OpenAI's or yours. If inputs are source code and it runs on a server outside the company, it's a fireable breach of security protocol to use it.

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