Re:If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your ...
by tadfisher on Friday March 27, 2026 @06:01PM
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> By April 24th Github will train on private repos
This statement itself is misleading. Also, GitHub probably should have seen this coming.
They are not doing what I initially thought, which is slurping up your private repo, wholesale, into its training set. You don't have to opt out of anything to prevent that.
They are slurping any context and input containing code from your private repo which is provided to them as part of using Copilot.
So, in addition to the opt-out setting, there is an even easier way to avoid providing them your private repository data to train AI models, and that's by continuing to not use Copilot.
This statement itself is misleading. Also, GitHub probably should have seen this coming.
They are not doing what I initially thought, which is slurping up your private repo, wholesale, into its training set. You don't have to opt out of anything to prevent that.
They are slurping any context and input containing code from your private repo which is provided to them as part of using Copilot.
So, in addition to the opt-out setting, there is an even easier way to avoid providing them your private repository data to train AI models, and that's by continuing to not use Copilot.