GitHub is automatically enrolling users' private repositories into its AI training program unless they opt out by April 24. The policy has sparked significant controversy on Hacker News, with 383 points and 195 comments criticizing the opt-out approach. Users must manually disable this setting in their GitHub Copilot preferences to protect their private code.
Background
GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered code completion tool trained on public repositories. The controversy arises from GitHub's decision to expand training data to include private repositories by default.
- Source
- Hacker News (RSS)
- Published
- Mar 28, 2026 at 05:04 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10