I know that no one else in the whole world did this because when I did it originally I looked for it

If you found your exact code in another client’s hands then it’s almost certainly because it was shared between them by a person. (EDIT: Or if you’re claiming you used Copilot to generate a section of code for you, it shouldn’t be surprising when another team asking Copilot to solve the same problem gets similar output) For your story to be true, it would require your GitHub Copilot LLM provider to use your code as training data. That’s technically possible if you went out of your way to use a Bring Your Own Key API, then used a “free” public API that was free because it used prompts as training data, then you used GitHub Copilot on that exact code, then that underlying public API data was used in a new training cycle, then your other client happened to choose that exact same LLM for their code. On top of that, getting verbatim identical output based on a single training fragment is extr…

thinking a non enterprise GH repo to be out of reach from Microsoft is like giving your phone for Facebook authentication and thinking they won't add it to their social graph matching.

In GitHub Co pilot if we say dont use my code option for training does this still leaks your private code?

> I know that no one else in the whole world did this because when I did it originally I looked for it. Not convincing, but plausible. Not many things that humans do are unique, even when humans are certain that they are. Humans who are certain that things that they themselves do are unique, are likely overlooking that prior.

It seems you're implying Github Copilot trained on your private repo. That's a completely separate concern than the one raised in this post.