Your GitHub Copilot usage could soon feed Microsoft's AI training, and if you miss the opt-out deadline, you're automatically opted in.

Microsoft has revealed that it is updating its GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy to allow the company to use this particular type of data to train its AI model. For clarity, interaction data involves inputs, outputs, code snippets, code context, comments, documentation, file names, repository structure, navigation patterns, and basically any interaction with Copilot.

  • neclimdul@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You might still look. In the banner on the site it says Copilot interactions. I suspect the way data collectors work, that will pretty quickly mean even if you don’t explicitly interact with copilot they’ll be sucking up your site interactions and personal data for training because “its all copilot”