Ever since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, the internet has been abuzz with equal parts doom and optimism. These risks stem from how the AI is trained, built, hosted and used differently than other software tools that developers trust.
Understand exactly how your AI tool will use or dispose of source code or other private data it uses for its primary task.
A more insidious threat is that sometimes AI bots like GitHub Copilot produce source code that perfectly replicates blocks of code from its training data.
An AI bot that analyzes source code will need to bring the source code to its processing facility.