Gigantic caveat.
> I agree to these additional telemetry terms as part of the technical preview
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"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems, 1999
Then, I should see absolutely zero complaints about privacy, tracking, spying, google analytics and facebook tracking.
Perhaps we should ask Scott if he is willing to share his browsing history, his personal photos and his passwords with the rest of us or maybe if I can come into his house?
After all, "You have zero privacy anyway"
Right. If you’re comfortable giving access to your source files to GitHub+OpenAI, then go for it.
I’m not sure how this would apply to secret keys or flat files with customer data/PII, but in any case that makes it a non-starter for me.
Their “Please do not share this URL publicly.” Banner at the top of the page which disclosed this info makes my skin crawl a bit…
If I were only working on public projects I would be on board right away, it looks like a big time saver.
Am I being to paranoid here?
No, you are not being paranoid. This tool literally uploads all the code it wants off your machine, and I see no way of filtering out secrets and the likes.
You have all the rights to be worried about that.
> Am I being to paranoid here?
No.
They already admitted that they send telemetry of the code you give it and its training set already has personal information in it anyway, despite what is being hyped up here by the fanatics, even when someone said that 'Copilot guesses the exact code I want to write about one in ten times' [0]
No thanks and certainly no deal.
So am I being too paranoid here to say that a bot (or something) somewhere on HN is instantly downvoting my very good questions and substantiated claims?
I always ask whoever disagrees to have the courage to sit down and discuss, but they always run away and never explain themselves.
Look really suspicious of either bot behaviour or just some angry hater don't you think?
I am pretty sure they will train it on private repos they are hosting as well (just not be public about it)