Linus Tech Tips Discussion

 GitHub to Train AI with User Data by Default     Summary GitHub's Mario Rodriguez announced that starting on April 24, 2026 that interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are not affected by this update.”   Quotes Quote GitHub says that this change “aligns with established industry practices” and that the goal is to improve AI model performance for all users. By participating, you’ll help our models better understand development workflows, deliver more accurate and secure code pattern suggestions, and improve their ability to help you catch potential bugs before they reach production,” Rodriguez says.   My thoughts I'm not sure how I feel about this, I feel like this is just opening A.I. to possibly learn to recode itself??? (I might have watched the Matrix one too many times) But do we really want A.I to read code if it is supposed to learn from it as well??? Believe Coders in the Opensource community that have Code on Github aren't probably going to be too concerned by this as the code is open to begin with. It'll be interesting to see how many will disable this feature in Github.   Sources https://www.thurrott.com/dev/334253/github-to-train-ai-with-user-data-by-default