#Microsoft sent an email to everyone saying they're listening to people now and they will definitely not pushing AI to everything anymore.

[mbeddeddev@fosstodon.org]

@harrysintonen Thanks for sharing. I don't use copilot but I hate the "enabled by default" settings in so many cases (e.g. AI training or telemetry).

[proscience@toot.community]

@harrysintonen

Anyone believing these fashs should get their heads examined.

[b@mrrp.place]

@harrysintonen luckily it does seem to just be referring to inputs and outputs to github copilot? so if you don't use their AI stuff it shouldn't affect you (at least not yet)

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@harrysintonen That showed up as ‘disabled’ for me when I went to the settings page. I think it’s been there for a while, I vaguely remember turning it off a while ago.

[harrysintonen@infosec.exchange]

@david_chisnall They announced this policy change on 25th March 2026 and it comes into effect 24th April 2026.

Note that this change doesn't apply to Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users.

[harrysintonen@infosec.exchange]

@b
"• Outputs accepted or modified by you
• Inputs sent to GitHub Copilot, including code snippets shown to the model
• Code context surrounding your cursor position
• Comments and documentation you write
• File names, repository structure, and navigation patterns
• Interactions with Copilot features (chat, inline suggestions, etc.)
• Your feedback on suggestions (thumbs up/down ratings)"

[struberg@mastodon.green]

@harrysintonen If Microsoft says that it 'listens to people' then I instantly cover the microphones on my notebook...

[zaphod42@chaos.social]

@harrysintonen Thank you. Been there done that ...

[jinna@gts.laalaa.land]

@harrysintonen @david_chisnall The email I received was pretty explicit that it's interactions with the slop that will be used to train and that if you previously disabled all activity feeding it then it also applies here, and mine remains disabled.

From April 24 onward, your interactions with GitHub Copilot—including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—may be used to train and enhance AI models unless you opt out.

If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retained— your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used for training unless you opt in.

[jaxxai@floss.social]

@harrysintonen Sounds like a politicians trick. Tell the masses what they want to hear but in reality just do what you want anyway.

[emil@helo.fuse.pl]

@chainq @harrysintonen Well, you know history of Microsoft, so this is less a tinfoil hat more a hard won experience.

[tarheel@theatl.social]

@harrysintonen

Had no idea: job forces Microsoft on us. Ugh. Thanks so much for the heads-up!

[dieweltist@bunt.social]

@harrysintonen @b So if you don't use Copilot you're fine is what I gather from this?
My short searches seem to indicate that, too.

[nick@donotsta.re]

@harrysintonen Also the link "Privacy Statement" does not lead to a privacy statement, it just shows the "What is GitHub Copilot?" page.

[jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social]

@harrysintonen@infosec.exchange I specifically don’t use GitHub, and haven’t for years (ever since the M$ purchase). Scummy resource.

[pnuw@masto.ai]

@harrysintonen @bluestocking you can also disable the option by going to codeberg.

[claude_flammang@dju.social]

@harrysintonen
Thanx, done

[lambtor@cyberplace.social]

@harrysintonen @bluestocking @pnuw can github be poisoned enough to wreck copilot?

[markhughes@mastodon.social]

@david_chisnall

I went there recently to turn this stuff off and it was enabled just now so ‍️
@harrysintonen

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@harrysintonen

When the fossil fuel industry orders up an attack on the literacy levels of an electorate, there are no half-measures.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

De-education, orchestrated by billionaires, takes many forms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/16/koch-network-says-it-wants-remake-public-education-that-means-destroying-it-says-author-new-book-billionaire-brothers/

Roger A. Freeman (economist) - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

AI & a neofeudalist ideology
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment

Just a moment...

(www.aiu.edu)