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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

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

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

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Developers caught VS Code adding Copilot as a co‑author without permission and forced a rollback

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VS Code credited Copilot for human work after a default change that bypassed user settings.

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I think you’re seriously overestimating many of the people hired and told to produce code.

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