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Copilot AI Inserted Promo Language Into Thousands of GitHub Requests

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31 Mar

Copilot AI Inserted Promo Language Into Thousands of GitHub Requests

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27 Apr

PSA: GitHub is Collecting Your Copilot Data for AI Training (And How to Opt Out)

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27 Mar

GitHub to Use User Data for AI Training by Default

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18 Aug

Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself

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26 Apr

Stanford researchers fed a language model a DNA sequence and asked it to create a new virus. It wrote hundreds of them, and 16 worked. One used a protein that doesn't exist in any known organism on Earth.

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14 Apr

AI may be making us think and write more alike, How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? and many other links from Hacker News

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22 Mar

WordPress.com gave AI agents write access to your site draft, publish, manage comments, all through natural language

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30 Mar

"Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"

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