“GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately.”
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The absence of any requirement for cause or notice means users have no guaranteed warning before access is cut off and no misconduct threshold that must be met.
The updated terms establish a dedicated section governing AI features, including GitHub Copilot. The new language introduces formal definitions of 'AI Feature', 'Input' (content or context provided to an AI feature, including prompts, attachments, code, and conversation history), and 'Output' (responses and suggestions generated by the AI feature). The terms state that GitHub may use Input data for development and improvement of AI and machine learning models. Users of AI features should review the new section K to understand how their prompts, code, and conversation history may be processed.
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"GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately.Excerpt from GitHub's Terms of Service
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The absence of any requirement for cause or notice means users have no guaranteed warning before access is cut off and no misconduct threshold that must be met.
Your access to all or any part of GitHub's Website may be suspended or terminated at any time, without cause and without notice, with immediate effect.
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