GitHub Copilot's new policy for AI training is a governance wake-up call (opens in new tab)

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2 pointskevthecoder20d ago2 comments

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From reading the GitHub privacy statement, I'm interpreting that private repositories won't be used for AI (https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/gith...). I'd be interested to hear any different though.

kevthecoderOP20d ago

To add a complicating factor, from this blogpost [1] GitHub say's "...if you provide private repository content as input to an AI Feature, we may use that input to improve AI features".

So I assume that if you were to supply a significant chunk of code to AI and ask for a code review, then your code could end up in the training data even though it wasn't written by AI (unless you know there's a manual opt-out option [2]).

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-priv... [2] https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

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kevthecoderOP20d ago

To add a complicating factor, from this blogpost [1] GitHub say's "...if you provide private repository content as input to an AI Feature, we may use that input to improve AI features".

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-priv... [2] https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

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