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I’m torn between wanting to opt-out because it’s morally correct, or remaining opted-in so I can poison AI models with my terrible code.
so I can poison AI models with my terrible code.
Don’t forget to teach it obscenities and yell at it whenever it fucks something up!
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Chaotic good
Name all your variables poorly and with swear words
Step one: Download a C or CPP repository.
Step two: Replace all semicolons with a greek comma.
Step three: ??
Step four: Poison Copilot, so that it randomly insert greek comas that the compilers totally choke on.
You’re using copilot??
No, you don’t have to use it for it to take your code for training.
Yeah all you have to do is commit anything to GitHub
They’re scraping all the code regardless of your preferences. I guarantee it.
All open source software is being scraped, on github or not!
Don’t worry, the models already spit out poor code quality.
Por qué no los dos?
Opt out on one account, use another as poison. If you’re gonna do this, I’d say move all your code to a new account and use the older account to poison - that way they can’t filter the bad out by account age.
Opted Out and moved all to codeberg
How is codeberg?
Has everything I need, but not more
i love codeberg, though i haven’t had a chance to test the collaboration features all that much
It’s great. I also self-host my own Forgejo (that’s the software Codeberg runs on) instance for private repos, to avoid using up space on Codeberg’s servers.
Main problem is the lack of federation, leading to splintering across Codeberg/GitLab/sourcehut/self-hosted forges. I know there’s Radicle, and Forgejo is working on ActivityPub integration, but it’s slow-moving to get what should be inherently federated by design (git) to actually be federated. In practice you need accounts on a dozen different websites if you want to regularly contribute to foss.
Link for opting out: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features
In the “Privacy” section, set “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training” to “Disabled”.
Illusion of choice. That setting will, totally unbeknownst to them, enable itself.
I turned it off ages ago, and if you already had it off, it’s staying off. (for now at least)
The switch, yes. The system upholding your election… maybe or maybe not.
You better check again, mine got switched back on.
I check it every day before I use CoPilot 😁
It seems to be off by default if you’ve already opted out of Copilot entirely. Definitely still a reminder I should set up my own git though
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fun fact, if you’ve ever accidentally clicked the “enable” button on copilot because you’re a dumbass who can’t read, you get a shitton of more settings, most of which are locked to “enabled”.
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i will not dispute the dumbass part but i have been programming professionally in python for 16 years. doesn’t mean my code is any good, of course.
As soon as Microslop got involved I pulled all my repos and left.
If you’re still om github, you’re kinda doing for it.
Got this email last night and felt validated for never uploading any code to GitHub because I don’t trust Microsoft. lol I don’t have any big coding projects, but I self-host a ForgeJo server in my mini rack at home behind a Twingate VPN.
Microsoft:
Fully automating supply chain attacks since (at least) 2026.
I kind of wish we’d get some copilot discounts if we opt in
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