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GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all (www.theregister.com)
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Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" – to train its AI models.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Interestingly, mine was still enabled from the last time I must have toggled that setting.

If they do screw around, they could just train on everything without asking anyone

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

I hate where society is at right now. I just want to skip ahead to where the social contract makes it standard to prevent this sort of hostile behavior. Or something. I refuse to accept that it's me, and my age or culture makes me so deeply discordant to current socioeconomic practices.