Claims: Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

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1. title: Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work (alleges; supported) Source
2. url: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/04/microsoft-fixes-vs-code-after-copilot-credited-human-code/5223936 (alleges; supported) Source
3. summary: Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code. The initial change – a pull request – altered VS Code's Git extension to add "Co-authored-by: Copilot" to commits that involved some level of AI assistance. This was done in VS Code 1.110 in ear… (alleges; supported) Source
4. published: Mon, 04 May 2026 23:13:34 +0200 (alleges; supported) Source