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A Research Preview of Codex

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511 points meetpateltech | 15 comments | 16 May 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.959s | source | bottom
1. kleiba ◴[16 May 25 15:59 UTC] No.44006997[source]▶
Just curious: is your company happy sharing their code-base with an AI provider? Or are you using a local installation?
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2. asadm ◴[16 May 25 16:01 UTC] No.44007019[source]▶
why not? OpenAI won't be stupid to look at my code and be that vulnerable legally. It ain't worth it.
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3. bhl ◴[16 May 25 16:03 UTC] No.44007041[source]▶
Cursor has enterprise mode which forces a data privacy feature.
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4. pixl97 ◴[16 May 25 16:25 UTC] No.44007283[source]▶
Companies commonly share their code with SAAS providers. Typically they'll have a contract to prevent usage otherwise.
5. nmca ◴[16 May 25 18:37 UTC] No.44008574[source]▶
It is a cost benefit trade off, as with all things. Benefits look pretty good.
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6. layer8 ◴[16 May 25 20:10 UTC] No.44009374[source]▶
The cost of sharing your code is unknown, though.
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7. odie5533 ◴[16 May 25 21:20 UTC] No.44009896[source]▶
For 99% of companies, their code is worthless to anyone but them.
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8. KaiserPro ◴[16 May 25 21:39 UTC] No.44009995[source]▶
They literally scraped half of youtube, made a library to extract the audio and released it as whisper.

Of _course_ they are training on your shit.

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9. manquer ◴[16 May 25 22:22 UTC] No.44010289[source]▶
For copying the product / service yes it is not worth much .

However for people trying to compromise your system access to your code can be a valuable asset .The worth of that could be well beyond just enterprise value of the organization , it could people’s lives or bring down critical infrastructure.

You don’t just have access to code you created and have complete control to. Organizations have vendors providing code(drivers , libraries…) with narrow licenses that prohibit sharing or leaking in anyway. So this type of leak can open you to a lot of liability.

10. philomath_mn ◴[16 May 25 22:24 UTC] No.44010299{3}[source]▶
Under what circumstances would that cost be high? Is OpenAI going to rip off your app? Why would they waste a second on that when there are better models to be built?
11. asadm ◴[17 May 25 03:37 UTC] No.44011856{3}[source]▶
thats publicly accessible shit. my code is trade secret and IP. I would litigate that shit if a line I wrote ends up in public model, easiest money to be made.
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12. frontalier ◴[17 May 25 04:07 UTC] No.44011973{4}[source]▶
you will litigate nothing, and if you do you'll be dismissed anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shira_Perlmutter#Firing

13. KaiserPro ◴[17 May 25 07:29 UTC] No.44012663{4}[source]▶
> my code is trade secret and IP

Which is the same law that protects "publicly accessible shit".

In the same way that you can't legally just rip MP3s off the internet[1], or copy movies and distribute them.

[1] unless you're rich.

14. kleiba ◴[20 May 25 19:42 UTC] No.44045153[source]▶
If that was true, hardly any company would be opposed to open sourcing their code base.
15. kleiba ◴[20 May 25 19:43 UTC] No.44045168[source]▶
So only in "enterprise mode", huh. Interesting, thanks.