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User Requests Policy to Ban GitHub Copilot Due to Ethical and Technical Concerns

By

davikr

1mo ago· 1 min readenCode

Summary

A user expresses concern about the use of GitHub Copilot in code reviews (specifically reviews 13277 and 12730) and requests a policy to forbid this technology due to various issues including ethical, environmental, copyright, and health concerns. The user mentions having an SDL project and not wanting to move away from it due to potential contamination from Copilot usage.

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I've noticed the use of Copilot within a few reviews (13277 and 12730) which concerns me given the vast amount of issues associated with this technology (ethical, environmental, copyright, health, etc)
so I was hoping a policy could be put in place to forbid this technology.
I have a project using SDL and I don't want to move away due to this project being tainted ☹️
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I've noticed the use of Copilot within a few reviews (13277 and 12730) which concerns me given the vast amount of issues associated with this technology (ethical, environmental, copyright, health, ...

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