Has Cursor Started Training Models on Private User Data?
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As a matter of fact, the wording sounds like all cursor user data (opt-in and opt-out alike) are being used.
Anyone knows what's going on behind the scenes?
And this makes sense. You train on your own data, and use the signals to know if your run was good or not.
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