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Sean Endicott

"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice

The Microsoft Copilot logo appears on a smartphone screen.

Not content with threatening to replace your role at work or causing company layoffs, AI is taking credit for work it did not even generate. Or at least it was until Microsoft Copilot got called out.

Until recently, VS Code had been adding "Co-authored by: Copilot" to Git commits, even if Copilot had not helped at all. The behavior was caused when a pull request altered a Git extension to add the text by default.

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