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Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
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Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
#72If you scroll down to "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" in GitHub settings, you can enable or disable it. However, what really gets me is how they pitch it like it’s some kind of user-facing feature: Enabled = You will have access to the feature Disabled = You won't have access to the feature As if handing over your data for free is a perk. Kinda hilarious.
Is that not some stock feature-flag verbiage?
Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
#73Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
#74I just checked my Github settings, and found that sharing my data was "enabled".
This setting does not represent my wishes and I definitely would not have set it that way on purpose. It was either defaulted that way, or when the option was presented to me I configured it the opposite of how I intended.
Fortunately, none of the work I do these days with Copilot enabled is sensitive (if it was I would have been much more paranoid).
I'm in the USA and pay for Copilot as an individual.
Shit like this is why I pay for duck.ai where the main selling point is that the product is private by default.
Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
#75Two issues with this: 1- Vulnerabilities, Secrets can be leaked to other users. 2- Intellectual Property, can also be leaked to other users. Most smart clients won't opt-out, they will just cut usage entirely.
That's me. Frankly, looking at just uninstalling VSCode because Copilot straight-up gets in the way of so much, and they stopped even bothering with features that are not related to it (with one exception of native browser in v112, which, admittedly, is great)
VSCode can be cleaned: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
(I prefer Emacs anyway, but VSCode is a worthy tool.)
Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
#76If you scroll down to "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" in GitHub settings, you can enable or disable it. However, what really gets me is how they pitch it like it’s some kind of user-facing feature: Enabled = You will have access to the feature Disabled = You won't have access to the feature As if handing over your data for free is a perk. Kinda hilarious.
A few days ago, I unchecked it, only to see it checked again when I reloaded the page.
It could be incompetence but it shouldn't matter. This level of incompetence should be punished equally to malice.
Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
#77It’s not clear to me how GitHub would enforce the “we don’t use enterprise repos” stuff alongside “we will use free tier copilot for training”. A user can be a contributor to a private repository, but not have that repository owner organisation’s license to use copilot. They can still use their personal free tier copilot on that repository. How can enterprises be confident that their IP isn’t being absorbed into the…
We do not train on the contents from any paid organization’s repos, regardless of whether a user is working in that repo with a Copilot Free, Pro, or Pro+ subscription. If a user’s GitHub account is a member of or outside collaborator with a paid organization, we exclude their interaction data from model training.
Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
#78I have GitHub Copilot Pro. I don't believe I signed up for it. I neither use it nor want it.
1. A lot of settings are 'Enabled' with no option to opt out. What can I do?
2. How do I opt out of data collection? I see the message informing me to opt out, but 'Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training' is already disabled for my account.
Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
#79Fun fact: Copilot gives you no way to ignore sensitive files with API keys, passwords, DB credentials, etc.: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/11254#discussi...
So by default you send all this to Microsoft by opening your IDE.
Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
#80> On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out. Review this update and manage your preferences in your GitHub account settings. Now "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" is enabled by default. Turn it off here: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features Do they have this set on business accounts also by default? If so, this is really shady.
What did everyone expect? I can't understand this community's trust of microsoft or startups. It's the typical land grab: start off decent, win people over, build a moat, then start shaking everybody down in the most egregious way possible.
It's just unusual how quickly they're going for the shakedown this time