alt Hacker NewsIf you scroll down to "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" in GitHub settings, you can enable or disable it. However, what really gets me is how they pitch it like it’s some kind of user-facing feature:
Enabled = You will have access to the feature
Disabled = You won't have access to the feature
As if handing over your data for free is a perk. Kinda hilarious.
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the framing is so manipulative. "you will have access to the feature" — what feature? the feature of giving away my data? at least be honest and call it what it is. i turned it off immediately but i wonder how many people just leave it because the wording makes it sound like you lose something.
I went to check on this and I have everything copilot related disabled and in the two bars that measure usage my Copilot Chat usage was somehow in 2%, how is this possible?
Before anyone comes to me to sell me on AI, this is on my personal account, I have and use it in my business account (but it is a completely different user account), I just make it a point to not use it in my personal time so I can keep my skills sharp.
The feature is that your coding style will be in next models!
I guess the "perk" is that maybe their models get retrained on your data making them slightly more useful to you (and everyone else) in the future? idk
Thanks to your comment, I have disabled it now :-)
I agree that it feels like a dart pattern for the most part, makes me want to use codeberg/self hosted git
It's worded that way to create FOMO in the hopes people keep it enabled.
Dark pattern and dick move.
A few days ago, I unchecked it, only to see it checked again when I reloaded the page.
It could be incompetence but it shouldn't matter. This level of incompetence should be punished equally to malice.
It’s not so bad, there’s no double negative and it’s not a confusing “switch” that is always ambiguous as to whether it’s enabled or not.
In contrast when you create a a GCS bucket it uses a checkmark for enabling “public access prevention”. Who designed that modal? It takes me a solid minute to figure out if I’m publishing private data or not.