last announcements for copilot were horrible guys, just delete it to make us a favour if you continue like this

Thank you microslop, I hope you will train your shitty model with this comment :)

All these data and you still can't add a search feature to VSCode Copilot Chat
microsoft/vscode#259374

At first please fix your bug..I cannot use my free quota, it does not reset.

Just because the whole industry is doing opt-in by default doesn't make it less shitty.

missing Q: Why would anyone trust anything Microsoft says when the punishments for corpos violating user data privacy are nonexistent?

If you’re excluding business customers from this, how is it that every user on our Business Plan has the “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training” option set to “Enabled” and has to actively opt out of it, just like any regular individual user?
Where is the guarantee that the new model training won’t apply to Business Accounts?

I have a business account but I have only provided licenses to some of the developers. This means some of the developers might be on individual licenses. Does this change mean that:

1. Private repo code for the organization will never be used by Github for training purposes since the Org is on a business plan?
2. The interactions and prompts that the individual user (who is not on the business plan) triggers as part of a code review or code analysis will also not be stored and used for training since the user is part of the same organization?

I am confused as to how the individual paid licenses will behave for users within an org repo that has a business license. Please provide some clarity. Thanks

So unpaid private repos will be used for training? (when any context from Copilot on GitHub includes files from those repos)

How then are those private repos still considered to be private?

If I hired a human to work in my free private repo, their NDA will prevent them from spilling my code outside. But if I pay an AI to work in my free private repo, there's no such protection?

مرحباً بمجتمع GitHub 👋

نحن نشارككم تحديثًا لبيان الخصوصية وشروط الخدمة الخاصة بنا حول كيفية استخدامنا للبيانات الشخصية لتطوير وتحسين وتأمين منتجات وخدمات GitHub، بما في ذلك تدريب نماذج الذكاء الاصطناعي والتعلم الآلي التي تشغل GitHub Copilot.

للاطلاع على الإعلان الكامل والتفاصيل الكاملة، يرجى زيارة منشور المدونة: تحديثات لسياسة استخدام بيانات التفاعل في GitHub Copilot .

الأسئلة الشائعة

فيما يلي قسم الأسئلة الشائعة الذي يغطي التغييرات، ومن سيتأثر، وما هي البيانات التي يمكن استخدامها (عند التمكين)، والضمانات، وتعليمات إلغاء الاشتراك.

• لماذا يقوم موقع GitHub بإجراء هذا التغيير ومتى سيدخل حيز التنفيذ؟

  • نُجري هذا التغيير لتحسين أداء النموذج وتقديم تجربة مستخدم أفضل. مع استمرار الزيادة الكبيرة في استخدام Copilot، ستساعد البيانات الواقعية نماذجنا على تغطية العدد المتزايد من السيناريوهات التي تُستخدم فيها حاليًا. يبدأ تطبيق التغيير في 24 أبريل. وقد تلقى المستخدمون إشعارًا مسبقًا قبل 30 يومًا، ويمكنهم إلغاء الاشتراك في أي وقت.

• لماذا تستخدمون بيانات الأفراد فقط مع استبعاد الشركات والمؤسسات؟

  • تمنع اتفاقياتنا مع عملاء قطاعي الأعمال والمؤسسات استخدام بيانات تفاعلهم مع برنامج Copilot لتدريب النماذج، ونحن نلتزم بهذه الالتزامات. أما المستخدمون الأفراد في باقات Free وPro وPro+، فيتمتعون بالتحكم الكامل في بياناتهم ويمكنهم إلغاء الاشتراك في أي وقت.

• هل يتأثر الطلاب والمعلمون الذين يستخدمون برنامج Copilot Pro مجاناً بهذا التحديث؟

  • لا، بموجب سياستنا، لا يتأثر الطلاب الذين لديهم إمكانية الوصول إلى Copilot Student والمعلمون الذين يصلون إلى Copilot Pro مجانًا.

• ما هي البيانات التي تقوم بجمعها؟

  • عندما يقوم مستخدم فردي بتفعيل هذا الإعداد، فإن بيانات التفاعل التي قد نجمعها تتضمن ما يلي:

    • المخرجات التي يقبلها المستخدم أو يعدلها
    • المدخلات المرسلة إلى GitHub Copilot، بما في ذلك مقتطفات التعليمات البرمجية المعروضة على النموذج
    • سياق الكود المحيط بموضع مؤشر المستخدم
    • التعليقات والوثائق التي كتبها المستخدم
    • أسماء الملفات، وبنية المستودع، وأنماط التنقل
    • التفاعلات مع ميزات الطيار المساعد بما في ذلك الدردشة والاقتراحات المضمنة

• ماذا يمكن للأفراد أن يفعلوا إذا كانوا لا يريدون استخدام مدخلاتهم أو مخرجاتهم أو مقتطفات التعليمات البرمجية الخاصة بهم لتدريب النموذج؟

  • بإمكانهم إلغاء الاشتراك عبر إعدادات حسابهم على GitHub Copilot في أي وقت.

• من سيتمكن من الوصول إلى هذه البيانات خارج منصة GitHub؟

  • GitHub and Microsoft personnel working on AI model development may access interaction data collected for training. We may also engage service providers to assist with model training on our behalf, subject to contractual obligations to use the data only for providing services to GitHub. Third-party model providers do not receive this data for their own model training. We do not sell user data. For more information on how we handle your data, see our Privacy Statement.

• What is a "GitHub affiliate" and who does that include?

  • A GitHub affiliate is a company that is part of the same corporate family as GitHub — meaning any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with GitHub. Today, that primarily means Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiaries. You can review Microsoft's privacy practices in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

  Companies that provide AI models or other services to GitHub — such as model providers, cloud hosting vendors, and other service providers — are not affiliates. They are service providers or subprocessors, and they are bound by contractual obligations that restrict how they can use your data. Specifically, service providers and subprocessors may only process your data on GitHub's behalf and at GitHub's direction — they do not receive your data for their own independent purposes, including their own model training. You can see GitHub's current list of subprocessors here.
  In short: affiliates are part of our corporate family. Service providers work for us under contract. These are distinct relationships with different rights and obligations.

• How do you protect sensitive data?

  • We’ve implemented multiple layers of protection for sensitive data including automated filtering designed to detect and remove API keys, passwords, tokens, and personally identifiable information. We also provide user controls for which repositories Copilot can access. We limit data access to authorized personnel working directly on model improvement and safety, and log and audit access.

• Do I need to do anything if I previously disabled the setting titled "Enabling or disabling prompt and suggestion collection"?

  • No, if you previously disabled that setting your preference will carry over and your interaction data will not be used for model training.

• Will code stored in private repositories be used for model training?

  • If a Copilot user has their settings set to enable model training on their interaction data, code snippets from private repositories can be collected and used for model training while the user is actively engaged with Copilot while working in that repository. This applies only to code snippets and outputs that are actively sent to Copilot during a user's session — we do not access or pull code from private repositories at rest. To prevent code snippets shared with Copilot during active sessions from being used for model training, users can disable model training in their GitHub account settings.

• What safeguards are in place to prevent enterprise code being used for model training due to an individual using a personal Copilot license while working in their employer’s codebase?

  • 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.

• Other companies aren’t using user data to train models. Why is GitHub?

  • We’re giving users the option of allowing us to train AI models with their interaction data because internal testing shows it will improve the accuracy of Copilot’s suggestions for all users. We can only speak on behalf of GitHub, but it’s worth noting this is similar to the approach that Microsoft,  Anthropic, and JetBrains are taking.

• You’re collecting code snippets, prompt text, AI responses, and detailed interaction patterns. How is this not giving you my entire codebase?

  • We’re collecting data only from your interactions with Copilot—we are not pulling any data from your codebase at rest.

• Security researchers found that Copilot Chat could expose private code from repositories that were temporarily public then set back to private. Why should we trust your guarantees about protecting our data?

  • We take the security of your data seriously and continue to invest in safeguards. The scenario described involved third-party collection of temporarily public data, which is outside GitHub's control. For data collected under this new program, we apply access controls, audit logging, and automated filtering to protect your code.

• I selected Copilot because GitHub said it didn’t train on user data. This feels like a bait and switch.

  • As Copilot usage continues to increase dramatically, we’ve identified a need for real-world data to help our models cover the increasing number of scenarios they’re now being used for. We are committed to giving developers control over whether their interaction data is used for training and will always be transparent about our use of this data.

• If this data collection is truly safe, why don’t you enable it by default for enterprise customers as well?

  • Our agreements with Business and Enterprise customers prohibit using their Copilot interaction data for model training, and we honor those commitments. That said, we use Microsoft interaction data for model training, with plans to incorporate GitHub interaction data, and are very confident in our ability to protect data used for model training.

• If your AI needs real user code to be competitive, isn’t that an admission that your advantage comes from exploiting your existing user base rather than better research?

  • 26 million developers are now using GitHub Copilot, representing a huge range of use cases and needs. We want to deliver an exceptional experience for every user, which is why we’re giving users the option of allowing us to use their usage data to improve Copilot’s ability to perform a more diverse range of coding tasks.

• If training on user code is so obviously beneficial, why does every company try to hide it behind toggles, footnotes, or tiered pricing instead of proudly asking for consent?

  • We can only speak for GitHub, and we are being as transparent as we can be about this change. We are notifying affected users directly, we published a blog post, and we have in-product notifications alerting users of the upcoming changes and directing them to update their user settings per their preferences.

• I noticed the private repository access language was removed from the Privacy Statement. Where did it go?

  • We moved the description of when GitHub personnel may access private repository content from the Privacy Statement to Section E (Private Repositories) of the Terms of Service. This is a consolidation, not a change. The same access limitations that have always applied continue to apply. See the changelog for more details: Updates to our Privacy Statement and Terms of Service: How we use your data.

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对于AI 有个无奈的建议,希望他知道偏离方向时,第一时间是修复过错而不是立马执行新的代码!明明一直走了一小段错误竟然会忽略,后进行新的,应该是先把错误修正在进行偏离纠正的!这个导致会产生很多错误和垃圾代码断阶代码一大堆!也就是按照中国成语说捡了芝麻，丢了西瓜!

What safeguards are in place to prevent enterprise code being used for model training due to an individual using a personal Copilot license while working in their employer’s codebase?
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.

Is all of their interaction data excluded, or only interactions that involve code inside a paid organization?

The update could have been clearer, and the current settings wording is easy to misread.

On the Copilot settings page, the control for “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training” uses text like “You won’t have access to the feature” when set to Disabled. Read at face value, that sounds like you might lose access to Copilot itself, rather than just opting out of data being used for training.

It would help to make that distinction explicit. For example: “Disabling this will not affect your Copilot access; it only prevents your data from being used for AI model training.”

It also wasn’t obvious where to find this setting from the blog post. I had to scroll through the Copilot settings page to locate it, so a clearer path in the post would help.

@IrregularShed

Is GitHub training on data in private repositories of free organizations? I do not see any setting to opt-out of it for a free organization.

Will "interaction data" that includes code snippets (or documentation, or configuration data, etc.) that is stored in local files that are part of .gitignore be included for training?

To put it another way, would data from files that are part of a project locally, but not uploaded to GitHub outside of being included in a Copilot session, be kept by GitHub, and used for training?