This comes after a trial period where Copilot has been feeding on internal Microsoft engineers’ data, which they say «improved model performance.»
They will not train on your entire code repositories, and will only use your interactions with Copilot — including accepted outputs, inputs sent to the model and «code context.»
Github is hardly alone in doing this, as Anthropic and OpenAI have been doing this for more than half a year. It’s common industry practice.
If you don’t like Copilot training on your data, you can opt out on the Copilot features page.
Read more: Github’s announcement, How-to Geek.