It's not clear to me what happens to personal repos if you're getting Copilot for work, or where to disable it there.
yeah, how can I view the settings on my own personal account if my employer is managing the copilot settings?
If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
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Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
#42What's a good alternative for free private repos?
Just spitballing, don’t use these tools myself, but isn’t this something that should be encrypted to really prevent them from training? I personally don’t trust anyone with my data when they pivot to building AI products yet claim my data wasn’t a part of that strategy. It’s too easy to hide/lie. But it always seemed to me that the UI should run locally with encryption keys that are shared and the service just manage…
I've not tried this, however
https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt
Apparently someone has developed something similar to this
Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
#43No we won’t. Details here https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-gi...
For users of Free, Pro and Pro+ Copilot, if you don’t opt out then we will start collecting usage data of Copilot for use in model training.
If you are a subscriber for Business or Pro we do not train on usage.
The blog post covers more details but we do not train on private repo data at rest, just interaction data with Copilot. If you don’t use Copilot this will not affect you. However you can still opt out now if you wish and that preference will be retained if you decide to start using Copilot in the future.
Hope that helps.
Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
#44How do I opt out of this for my own private repos? I don't see anything related to this as I've got a ton of settings for Copilot itself (I have access to Copilot through my work org)
Under privacy. > Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training
Strange, looks like I don't have that option at all
Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
#45is there an easy way to shift all your repos to gitlab or to private if you don’t use ci/etc?
Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
#46RIP all the people who have been paying Github for years and never happen to see the notice.
I think opt out is stupid, but the notice is on every page of github using their banner display right now. They've also blasted out emails.
At least they are being very upfront with it (I guess?), most companies just slickly add the clause on their routinely TOS update.
Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
#47What's a good alternative for free private repos?
I've seen https://codefloe.com mentioned, can't say I've used it myself yet though.
Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
#48This headline is false; it will not go take your private repos and dump them into a training dataset. Rather, GitHub will train on your copilot interactions with your private repos. If you do not use copilot, this makes no difference to you, though you should probably still turn it off.
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Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
#49I'm looking forward to the class action lawsuit, even if only to establish a precedent!
I don't have much hope, but I wish that ignoring software licensing and attribution at scale becomes harder than it currently seems.
Re: If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
#50How do I opt out of this for my own private repos? I don't see anything related to this as I've got a ton of settings for Copilot itself (I have access to Copilot through my work org)
Under privacy. > Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training
I don't see this. Might be a regional/geofenced thing with the EU, not sure. Or because I have a corporate Copilot license through my day job org.