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Episode 533: Eddie Aftandilian on GitHub Copilot

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GitHub Co-Pilot - Code Laundering

Co-pilot uses public repose on GitHub to train the underlying model. It doesn't suggest your private code to other users of Co-pilot, but there's a filter that filters out rare instances where it does this. Users have the choice to turn that on and off during setup. The idea of code laundering is similar to what developers have always done: You use source code to learn and to understand.

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