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No, they will be using user’s copyrighted work, including that which is in a “private” repository, to extract value for themselves.
Also the AI is trained on FOSS code but then used to make closed code that ignores the open licenses of the FOSS code that it copied.
If you use a public ai agent on it your repo isn't really 'private'