GitHub Copilot may be perfect for cheating CompSci programming exercises

[SiliconWizard]

Is that the world we really want to live in?
Just asking. Because if the answer is no for a majority of us, gotta ask who is driving it.

[magic]

Is that the world we really want to live in?
Just asking. Because if the answer is no for a majority of us, gotta ask who is driving it.

Just think of the children, dude.
Majority of us aren't pedophiles so yes, this is the world we want to live in

[AndyBeez]

I ponder how Google AI learns what is an indecent image, is their a CAPTCHA for this? I am a [teenage] human. Select all images with butts.

Is that the world we really want to live in?
Just asking. Because if the answer is no for a majority of us, gotta ask who is driving it.

It's being driven by our tech ignorant political class and the silicon valley sociopaths with snake oil as a solution SOaaS to sell - for a lot of tax payers dollar$. Tax payers who are brainwashed into believing they need protecting from the evil that is the internet, via their congressman's Twitter account.

There is a very serious cyber security issue here: If Google on behalf of the NSA are using AI to scrape the content of our emails to "protect children", and all with our assumed consent, what else is being examined to protect us from "perverts, terrorists and communists"? How much business to business traffic sent over SSL is being 'identified' to be examined by a human analyst?

Simply, do not use GMail as it is a security risk. Use your own or trusted email server, or encrypt sensitive contents. It's what the real bad actors have been doing for decades.

[janoc]

Simply, do not use GMail as it is a security risk. Use your own or trusted email server, or encrypt sensitive contents. It's what the real bad actors have been doing for decades.

And it is a sure fire way to get your e-mail tagged as spam and rejected/trashed unless you are big corporation, passing your e-mail through a large ISP/vendor (and then you are back to square one) or willing to deal with a ton of hassle, aggravation and costs figuring out why your e-mails are not being delivered, getting lost, bounced, etc.

That is in addition to spam, malware and constant security related stuff (updating the server, hardening it, warding off constant hacking attempts by bots, ...) which are the daily bread and butter for anyone running any kind of server on the internet.

Sadly the time when anyone could run their own server without issues as long as they were a bit technically competent are long gone.

Also if you start encrypting, that's only going to attract even more attention to you because you are standing out like that proverbial guy in a gorilla suit in the middle of party crowd - "Hey look - that guy has something to hide!"

Doesn't mean you shouldn't do these things but it is far from a clear-cut and obvious solution. The tradeoffs are fairly significant there.