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Ric Le Poidevin
@riclep.dev

We spent years making things like email newsletters opt-in, fought hard to get control over cookies, pushed for better privacy. So why do AI companies insist that every interaction, every piece of data they collect, every name they use should be opt-out? How do we change this thinking?

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Ric Le Poidevin
@riclep.dev

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Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...