Title: A client of mine is just about to launch a startup. There&#x27;s nothing public on the web yet. Today, while hacking a very minimal prototype of a HTML page into VSCode, I got a strange suggestion from GH Copilot. When I entered the client&#x27;s name Copilot prompted me with a ready-made &lt;article&gt; block containing a marketing claim of their company. So far so nice.<p>Strange thing is the claim is not public and not contained in the codebase I&#x27;m currently working on, in no codebase I know of and to my knowledge, I&#x27;m the only related dev using Copilot. It&#x27;s also not listed on Google, thus I assume it&#x27;s not leaked somewhere else that could be indexed by GH (which is an assumption of course, but appears likely). But it can be found in a completely separate local folder with project assets that is not published on GH.<p>The marketing claim is about the length of a tweet and is not exactly generic. It requires understanding of my client&#x27;s business (which again, cannot be derived from my codebase). So it&#x27;s not GPT3 output that matches coincidentially.<p>The GH „About GitHub Copilot Telemetry” page [1] does not indicate that your locale file system is scanned though.<p>Can anyone explain that or observed a similar phenomenon?<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;github&#x2F;copilot&#x2F;about-github-copilot-telemetry
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