PSA: GitHub changes to training on interactions with Copilot & Secretly adding authorizations to users accounts

If you use GitHub, you likely recently got an email that looks something like this: Email (links replaced with non-tracker versions) (click for more details) At the time of writing, the email above, the blog post, and the FAQ all fail to mention one other thing: you may have had some authorizations added to your account for one or more “Authorized GitHub Apps”, namely, “Copilot Chat App”, “Copilot Pull Request Reviewer”, and/or “Copilot SWE Agent”. Before this change was made, I already had every Copilot related setting disabled and did not use it. Yet I found the “Copilot SWE Agent” authorization had been added to my account, and apparently, it was “used within the last week”. I can’t imagine what it was used for, because I detest AI and refuse to use it for anything. I would not have known to check for this if I hadn’t been warned by members of the Rust language Zulip chat. You may want to check your own accounts!