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by visarga 1808 days ago
Yes, it looks like unfinished work. They could have:

- implemented plagiarism detection to attribute code to its source (where possible), then present the result together with the link. This makes Copilot same with Googling your answer and then copy-pasting the code. You are fully responsible

- implemented some regexes to filter out secrets, or even better, change the secrets to random values in the training data

- implemented a robots.txt like system so people have a method to ban the Copilot spider from their code

If they did these things before release it would have been so much better. But they are simple fixes so I see no technical obstacle.