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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.
I signed up to github purely to opt in and upload terrible python code.
If they desperately want to train the idiot machine on my awful self-taught code, that's on them.
Chaotic good
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.
Name all your variables poorly and with swear words
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!
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.