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Has someone noticed a similar thing with ChatGPT and private Github repos? ChatGPT has recommended private repo links to me many times. Because they are not public, I get repo not found error. But ChatGPT can generate private code with no issues.

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Are you sure the private repos exist, rather than just being hallucinations?

Yeah it's always been hallucinated repos. It's easy enough to verify - do a google search on the repo name itself and see if it's ever been mentioned or used anywhere and if it matches what ChatGPT thinks it was suggesting. And check to see if the owner of the repo exists and if they do, check their repositories to see which programming languages & topics they favor and see if it matches or not.

Github -> Microsoft sharing everything with OpenAI sadly sounds realistic.

Or they don't exist in the first pLace, or they're now deleted repos, or they used to be public but went private, etc.

Unfortunately, everything you mentioned above is a possibility.

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