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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by stemlord on Friday August 26, 2022 @11:46PM (#32615435)
Well I thought github was a "you are the product" sort of deal with Copilot?
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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by ggsp on Saturday August 27, 2022 @02:33AM (#32616368)
How so?
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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by joshspankit on Saturday August 27, 2022 @07:06AM (#32617752)
They scraped all the code submitted to GitHub and used it to train the AI behind the now-paid Copilot product
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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by ggsp on Saturday August 27, 2022 @07:32AM (#32617879)
In their FAQ [1], GitHub state: GitHub Copilot is powered by Codex, a generative pretrained AI model created by OpenAI. It has been trained on natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub.

Genuine question, has there been any evidence to substantiate your claim?

[1] https://github.com/features/copilot#what-data-has-github-cop...

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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by joshspankit on Saturday August 27, 2022 @11:27AM (#32620051)
> including code in public repositories on GitHub.

You just provided the evidence. I was incorrect to use the term "all the code", but they clearly and openly used GitHub code to train Copilot

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