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Thanks for the pointer but I don't think this is what happened in my case. I never opened the marketing assets in VSCode. They reside in completely separate folders.
Are you using Windows? IIRC Microsoft collects a hefty amount of data from your filesystem.
Have you tried using github search to see if it's popping up there?
Not until now, thanks! There are no matches. The claim contains my client's company name. And not even the company name yields any search results.
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Are you using Windows? IIRC Microsoft collects a hefty amount of data from your filesystem.
Good point again, but no. MacOS.
Allowing this to happen would've been incredibly stupid. But it's worth investigating further.
The dangers of just regurgitating what has been read are unreal, since with good enough targeting you can read the data someone else wrote and expected to be anonymized. It's like huge global RAM of code, you just need to figure out how to get it to point at the right addresses.
I think it also reads your clipboard. Yesterday, I had copied something from stackoverflow, and was about to paste it, and it gave me a suggestion before I could even drop it in.
E.g., I just prompted GPT-2 with a made up company name that doesn't have any google search results and got a completion like this:
Fully featured webapp for social & mobile networks in the cloud
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Thanks for the pointer but I don't think this is what happened in my case. I never opened the marketing assets in VSCode. They reside in completely separate folders.
Are you using Windows? IIRC Microsoft collects a hefty amount of data from your filesystem.
Just out of curiosity, did you seek permission to use Copilot from your client? I wonder how widely accepted it is in roles which handle sensitive data.
I have Copilot enabled in a single workspace and tried some unique keywords from other projects (where Copilot is not enabled) and it could not generate anything similar.