Which parts of my code where uploaded to the cloud?

[KenoAlbrecht]

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Hello there,

I am an active user of the Github Copilot and other LLM-Tools as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. My experience using these tools where mixed as they sometimes really help creating new ideas and sometimes really don't help when they produce professional sounding bullshit featuring completely false facts. Which is pretty dangerous in my opinion.

But anyway, my question is: Where can I look up, which parts of my code (or is everything automatically uploaded?) got uploaded to the cloud for further analyzation? I already tried to search on Google for that but got no official answer. It only said that "snippets" where uploaded (on medium.com from someone who is at least not official working at Microsoft/Github), what ever that means. But that was no official document/website. And even if it was, it is still quite unclear in my opinion.

I also tried asking the Github Copilot directly via its chat feature but that only said this: "No, your workspace was not uploaded to the cloud. I can only interact with the code you provide or ask about within this session. If you have any specific questions or need assistance with a particular part of your code, please let me know!"

Which is confusing as before that I just asked it something regarding my workspace (where did I define function xyz and which arguments does it need to work properly) using the "@workspace" operator.
Which could or would indicate that the whole workspace containing all my code was uploaded to answer my question. Or does it do some processing offline? Which would be great and awesome but I can't really see any additional CPU, GPU and memory usage on my system and it also would not have enough RAM or VRAM for a larger language model.

I really like the idea and concept of Github Copilot and other AI-assistents but it is alway quite unclear for me which data they use and store and for how long and where and so on. Which is not really usable for people which are working on projects with security concerns, for ex. in research and so on I think. Or is my conclusion here wrong as I missed or misinterpreted important information?

An explanatory answer would be much appreciated and would increase my trust rg. these tools massively!

Kind regards
Keno