this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
962 points (99.4% liked)

Technology

83125 readers
3714 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" – to train its AI models.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] S4m_S3p1l@infosec.pub 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised, companies are starting to realise that AI is only as useful as the data it's trained on. If you blast it with all the internet slop we have completely unfiltered, it's going to start fucking up all it's responses. It's not just about the volume of data, it's about the quality of that data. Sites like Github, and academic journals, contain the exact data that companies need to create well rounded LLMs, that don't go off on racist rants and declare themselves as "MechaHitler". That makes data like Github's pure gold.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Counterpoint, I've poisoned it with absolute dumb shit and the worst code you've ever seen

[–] S4m_S3p1l@infosec.pub 1 points 16 hours ago

Thank you for your service 07

[–] luftruessel@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)