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Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

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Post by gentleman11 »

dormento wrote: post #50
g947o wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/188488 > Why are you only using data from individuals while excluding businesses and enterprises? > Our agreements with Business and Enterprise customers prohibit using their Copilot interaction data for model training, and we honor those commitments. Individual users on Free, Pro, and Pro+ plans have control over their data and can opt out at any time.

Aka "they have lawyers and you usually don't, so we think we can get away with it."

only big companies have access to the legal system. nobody else can afford it

Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

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Post by bigiain »

Rapzid wrote: post #72
stefankuehnel wrote: post #18

If 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?

Stock dark pattern verbiage...

I'm a little surprised the options aren't "Enable" and "Ask me later".

Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

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Post by martinwoodward »

david_allison wrote: post #78

I 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.

Hey David - if you want to send me (martinwoodward at github.com) details of your GitHub account I can take a look. At a guess I suspect you are one of the many folks who qualified for GitHub Copilot Pro for free as a maintainer of a popular open source project.

Sounds like you are already opted out because you'd previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements. But I can check that.

Note, it's only _usage_ data when using Copilot that is being trained on. Therefore if you are not using Copilot there is no usage data. We do not train on private data at rest in your repos etc.

Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

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Post by aksss »

parkersweb wrote: post #66
mentalgear wrote: post #8

> 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.

Yes - not impressed at all that this is opt-in default for business users. We have a policy in place with clients that code we write for them won’t be used in AI training - so expecting us to opt out isn’t an acceptable approach for a business relationship where the expectation is security and privacy.

It is not opt-in by default for business users. The feature flag doesn't show in org policies and github states that it's not scoped to business users.

Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

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Post by david_allison »

martinwoodward wrote: post #85
david_allison wrote: post #78

I 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.

Hey David - if you want to send me (martinwoodward at github.com) details of your GitHub account I can take a look. At a guess I suspect you are one of the many folks who qualified for GitHub Copilot Pro for free as a maintainer of a popular open source project. Sounds like you are already opted out because you'd previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements. But I…

Cheers!

Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

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Post by NewJazz »

Rapzid wrote: post #72
stefankuehnel wrote: post #18

If 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?

But it isn't a feature, so using a feature flag is a bit weird.

Re: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

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Post by a1o »

hakunin wrote: post #47
a1o wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went to check on this and I have everything copilot related disabled and in the two bars that measure usage my Copilot Chat usage was somehow in 2%, how is this possible? Before anyone comes to me to sell me on AI, this is on my personal account, I have and use it in my business account (but it is a completely different user account), I just make it a point to not use it in my personal time so I can keep my skills…

Does Github count it as copilot chat usage when you use AI search form on their website, I wonder?

I wonder if that’s it! I occasionally do some code search on GitHub and then remember it doesn’t work well and go back to searching in the IDE. I usually need to look into not the main branch because I do a lot of projects that have a develop branch where things actually happen. But that would explain so I guess this is it.
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