Can Github Copilot on VSCode see what I'm viewing on my browser? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by unicornBro@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm entering words from my browser into my code and Copilot guesses the word before I begin to type it. The only way it could know what I want to type 75% of the time, I think, is if it can see the website in my browser. Is this right?

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[-] wellbudyweek@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago

I wondered this too when I was using the Jetbrains ai a while back, but I came to the conclusion that it's probably just trained on code that's on the internet, so you're likely to type something that's literally in its trainingdata when you're copying something from the web.

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