GitHub Is About to Start Training AI on Your Code and You Have 30 Days to Stop It

If you are a developer using GitHub Copilot, you might want to pay attention to this one. Starting April 24, 2026, GitHub is changing its data policy so that your interaction data from the Free, Pro, and Pro+ plans will be used to train AI models.

The catch? You have to actively opt out. If you do nothing, your code interactions, your prompts, your suggestions, all of it becomes training fuel for future AI models.

For non-developers, here is why this matters: GitHub is where most of the world's software code lives. Copilot is their AI coding assistant that watches what you type and suggests code completions. It is like autocomplete on steroids for programmers. Millions of developers use it every day.

Until now, there was more of a wall between your coding data and AI training. That wall is coming down unless you go into your settings and explicitly say no.

The timing is interesting. This comes as AI companies are increasingly hungry for high-quality training data. Code written by real developers solving real problems is some of the most valuable training data that exists. And GitHub just happens to have the largest collection of it on the planet.

Developers are already raising concerns. Some are calling it a bait-and-switch: get people hooked on a useful tool, then quietly change the terms so their work feeds the machine. Others argue that if you are using a free or cheap AI tool, you are the product.

Either way, you have until April 24 to make your choice.

As reported by LLM Stats.

Source: LLM Stats