Change of position
GitHub Copilot changed what its terms of service says
GitHub now says it may train on “Your Content” and Affiliates may use Inputs/Outputs “Unless you opt out,” replacing “if you allow in your settings.”
- When
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- Terms of Service
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- Capture with the new text · last capture with the old text
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- All GitHub Copilot plans and changes
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- Three independent AI readers agreed: . How that works.
What changed
Removed Added. Only the sentences about training are shown, not the whole document.
Before
In force from
For GitHub Copilot Free users, the data collected by GitHub Copilot may be used for AI Model training where permitted and if you allow in your settings.
After
In force from
You grant GitHub and our Affiliates the right to store, host, archive, parse, display, and make copies of Your Content as necessary to provide, develop, and improve the Service, including by training AI Features, and for the purpose of training, developing, and improving artificial intelligence and machine learning models and technologies of our Affiliates. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other Users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other Users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video. For the avoidance of doubt, use of Your Content to develop, train, and improve artificial intelligence and machine learning models and technologies of GitHub and our Affiliates is within the scope of this license and does not constitute a sale or other restricted transfer of Your Content.
If you provide your private repository content as Input to AI Features, we may use that Input to provide, develop, train, and improve the Service, including AI Features. Your ability to opt out under Section J.3 applies to this use of private repository content. We will not otherwise use your private repository contents to develop or improve the Service.
Unless you opt out, GitHub's Affiliates may use your Inputs and Outputs under this license in accordance with their applicable privacy and contractual obligations. This license does not, however, permit GitHub or its Affiliates to share your Inputs or Outputs with third-party AI model providers for their own independent model training purposes.
Other GitHub Copilot changes
- GitHub Copilot says Free users’ data “may be used for AI Model training where permitted and if you allow in your settings.” New disclosure · GitHub Copilot, Terms of Service