Don't Train On Me

How to stop GitHub Copilot using your code

Code snippets and prompts from Copilot usage.

This covers your telemetry. Public repositories are a different conversation.

A setting you can switch offEffort: lowNot yet re-verified
Open the GitHub setting

What they use

Prompts and code snippets from your Copilot usage, for product improvement.

Turn it off

  1. 1Go to github.com/settings/copilot.
  2. 2Turn off the option allowing your code snippets to be used for product improvement.

The bigger point

This covers your Copilot telemetry only. Public repositories were ingested into training corpora years ago and no setting recalls that. If that matters to the user, the lever is repository visibility going forward, not this toggle. Say so.

Covers your Copilot telemetry. Public repositories were already in the training corpus.

GitHub is one of thirty-one

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