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ai training data
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The ai training data tag covers discussions about how user-generated content, code, and web data are used to train artificial intelligence models. Recent threads highlight GitHub's policy change to use Copilot Free and Pro interaction data for AI training starting April 2026, with an opt-out option for individuals but exclusion for Business and Enterprise customers. Another thread examines publishers prohibiting automated scraping for AI training, emphasizing proprietary content restrictions. A third thread explores Alibaba's Qwen app becoming transactional and Wikimedia selling Wikipedia data to AI labs. These topics reflect ongoing debates about data ownership, consent, and commercial use in AI development.
GitHub is making one of its most consequential Copilot policy changes yet, and this time the company is being unusually direct about what it plans to do with user data. Beginning on April 24, 2026, GitHub says it will use interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ accounts to train and...
Paul Thurrott’s site has quietly—and unambiguously—reasserted that the content it publishes is proprietary and intended for personal, non‑commercial use only, explicitly forbidding automated scraping, bulk copying, and any reuse that would act as a “source of or substitute for the Service.”...
Alibaba’s consumer Qwen chat has quietly graduated from “research demo” to a transaction‑enabled assistant, and at the same moment the Wikimedia Foundation is re‑casting Wikipedia as a paid data partner for major AI labs — two linked developments that reveal how generative AI is evolving from...