Ugh, can't believe they made this opt-in by default, and didn't even post the direct URLs to disable in their blog post.

To add on to your (already helpful!) instructions:

- Go to https://github.com/settings/copilot/features - Go to the "Privacy" section - Find: "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" - Set to disabled

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/188488

> Why are you only using data from individuals while excluding businesses and enterprises?

> Our agreements with Business and Enterprise customers prohibit using their Copilot interaction data for model training, and we honor those commitments. Individual users on Free, Pro, and Pro+ plans have control over their data and can opt out at any time.

Yes - not impressed at all that this is opt-in default for business users. We have a policy in place with clients that code we write for them won’t be used in AI training - so expecting us to opt out isn’t an acceptable approach for a business relationship where the expectation is security and privacy.

We have a business account, and because of issues like this, access to anything CoPilot is blocked.

Just confirming, we do not use Copilot interaction data for model training of Copilot Business or Enterprise customers.

Per their blog post

> Business and Copilot Enterprise users are not affected by this update.

Interestingly, it is disabled by default for me.

What did everyone expect? I can't understand this community's trust of microsoft or startups. It's the typical land grab: start off decent, win people over, build a moat, then start shaking everybody down in the most egregious way possible.

It's just unusual how quickly they're going for the shakedown this time

> Do they have this set on business accounts also by default? If so, this is really shady.

Looks like not, but would it actually have been shadier, or are we just used to individual users being fucked over?