[fartcannon]

Github copilot regurgitates my colleagues highly niche code verbatim. I know its his because all the same bad variable names are used.

[MaxLeiter]

It doesn’t train itself on your local code. It’s probably using your colleagues code in your codebase as part of the input to decide what you want. Someone else in a separate project will never see Copilot recommendations of your colleagues (as long as GitHub doesn’t change their ToS)

[fartcannon]

It's on github.

[jakear]

Someone else running copilot in a different workspace wouldn’t see those recommendations, you can try it yourself in a new workspace.

[fartcannon]

This isn't the first time it's done this. If I recall it regurgitated the doom source, along with the swearing.

[jakear]

Yes, because that code is duplicated exactly hundreds of times over across the internet. Your colleague’s isn’t.

[fartcannon]

His is duplicated (uncredited, without his permission) numerous places on the internet. And github reproduces it verbatim. So now I expect it to be in even more places.