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Re:Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Mic... by tzury on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:43PM (#43201135)
Copilot is a code completion, and authoring for developers.

It’s not a presenting a copy of trained material, rather generating new content based on what it has learned in the context of the problem / query discussed in the prompt.

Repositories available (complete copy) sounds more like a search engine cache, which is mentioned in the middle of the article (Bing).

So, is it Bing, the search engine or the AI model?

Perhaps I am missing the core here, but at the moment it seems like a Bing story dressed as AI story for traffic (arstechnica) and fame (lasso).

Re:Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Mic... by atharvap01 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:13PM (#43200917)
With Copilot, your private code isn't just yours anymore—it's a community treasure!
Re:Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Mic... by prosim on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:39PM (#43201116)
To quote from the article: "These repositories, belonging to more than 16,000 organizations, were originally posted to GitHub as public, but were later set to private [..]" Once things are public, they will forever remain public (in some form). That's how the internet works.
Re:Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Mic... by alphan0n on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:27PM (#43201029)
This just in: Accessibly of the past by the present an unforeseen facet of reality.
Re:Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Mic... by grg0 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:27PM (#43201034)
Thank you all who contributed to this project. Truly an amazing community. /s
Re:Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Mic... by prosim on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:38PM (#43201107)
Flagged yesterday already. Still a non-story today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43183333