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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-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.

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OpenAI/ChatGPT/Codex, Anthropic/Claude and Google/Gemini all do this.

Regarding 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-u...

You can opt out with all three (Codex, Claude, Copilot) except for Gemini

Last time I checked Codex didn't have that option for $20 plan

> 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.

Yeah you're right, I filed it away as no opt out for some reason

Maybe because Google "does not sell" personal information, yet almost all their revenue comes from personal information?

They sell aggregated information.

And targeted information.

> 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.

I 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.

My comment was not meant to excuse what they're doing, just to point out that it's the bad status quo for these services

Looks like you can disable it though:

https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

-> Privacy -> "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training"

Yeah, 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.

I 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.

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