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I feel like there is an even more important crisis that is being masked over here: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-privacy-statement-an
by neya 7mo ago
I feel like there is an even more important crisis that is being masked over here:
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-privacy-statement-and-terms-of-service-how-we-use-your-data/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-priv...
New Section J — AI features, training, and your data: We’ve added a dedicated section that brings all AI-related terms together in one place. Unless you opt out, you grant GitHub and our affiliates a license to collect and use your inputs (e.g., prompts and code context) and outputs (e.g., suggestions) to develop, train, and improve AI models.
We should not be using Copilot in the first place.
- heavyset_go 7mo agoOpenAI/ChatGPT/Codex, Anthropic/Claude and Google/Gemini all do this.
- cromulent 7mo agoRegarding Claude: As I have unticked the "Help improve Claude" checkbox, I was under the impression that Claude did not do this. https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023555-how-do-you-use-personal-data-in-model-training#h_488fc4b87f https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023555-how-do-you-u...
- heavyset_go 7mo agoYou can opt out with all three (Codex, Claude, Copilot) except for Gemini
- lostmsu 7mo agoLast time I checked Codex didn't have that option for $20 plan
- neya 7mo ago> except for Gemini This is incorrect. If you are a paid subscriber, Gemini explicitly states it doesn't use your data to train its models.
- heavyset_go 7mo agoYeah you're right, I filed it away as no opt out for some reason
- hedora 7mo agoMaybe because Google "does not sell" personal information, yet almost all their revenue comes from personal information?
- jiveturkey 7mo agoThey sell aggregated information.
- hedora 7mo agoAnd targeted information.
- neya 7mo ago> OpenAI/ChatGPT/Codex, Anthropic/Claude and Google/Gemini all do this. 1. Everyone doing this doesn't mean it's acceptable. 2. Google Gemini explicitly says right under the chat box if you are a paid subscriber (Workspace): Your <company name> chats aren’t used to improve our models. Gemini is AI and can make mistakes. Not sure about the others.
- g947o 7mo agoI think anyone using a "Team" or enterprise plan of ChatGPT/Claude/Copilot doesn't have their data used for training, that's the same across the board.
- heavyset_go 7mo agoMy comment was not meant to excuse what they're doing, just to point out that it's the bad status quo for these services
- chimpanzee2 7mo agoLooks like you can disable it though: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features https://github.com/settings/copilot/features -> Privacy -> "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training"
- neya 7mo agoYeah, but it's a shitty move though - it should be by default opt-in, rather than opt-out. Imagine, you just continue coding normally consciously avoiding co-pilot only to find out that Github has been secretly training their models on your code, just because you forgot to toggle a setting off which was turned on without your knowledge, which they didn't even have the decency to email you about, but just posted on a blog no one reads.
- saintfire 7mo agoI got an email about it. Its sort of a moot point since the whole thing is for good will anyways. They freely scraped licensed code and semi-private data across the internet and now they're pretending that they need to license anything. If a court rules they had to license data in the first place then the whole industry would actually have to start following laws.
- stronglikedan 6mo ago> Unless you opt out (whether or not you should have to opt in or out is a different topic)