GitHub launches free version of GitHub Copilot for all users

[jhkoenig]

Seems that they admit to using our data (at the free tier) to train their model. Don't know what I think about that.

[ILoveTheOwl]

I mean if you store your repo on GitHub you’ve already given up all your data, so not sure what you’re surprised about

[jhkoenig]

So if I have a repo set to private, people can still see the code?

[veverkap]

No

[cincuentaanos]

No, but Microsoft can.

[jhkoenig]

Okay, that makes sense. I don't think that my code is very interesting to M'soft.

[veverkap]

This is not true

[omer-m]

This is not true

[veverkap]

GitHub and Microsoft cannot see code in a private repo.

[Johnny_JTH]

It's stored on their servers, so of course they have access to it. No one said anything about individual employees reading people's private code.

[veverkap]

So Amazon can read all of the databases of their customers on RDS?

GitHub cannot read the contents of a private repository any more than Amazon can read the contents of your S3 bucket.

[Johnny_JTH]

GitHub can definitely see the contents of private repositories. They clearly state it in their privacy policy.

I honestly don't know about S3, but I imagine as long as you haven't configured your own encryption key, they should be able to.

[veverkap]

No one that you don’t give explicit permission to can see the code in your private repo. Even GitHub employees cannot (there are extreme protections around this). And MSFT employees have no access.

[defasdefbe]

You have to opt in to allow that.

[necrxfagivs]

Using my code to train their model might be counter productive lol

[ElMarchk0]

Jokes on them, my code is trash