Microsoft Corporation provided Mezha.Media with an official response regarding blocking Ukrainian developers access to the GitHub Copilot tool in Visual Studio. The company notes that the access ban that Copilot users faced was a bug and not a deliberate limitation of the AI tool for Ukrainian users. Microsoft has already uploaded a patch that should restore the ability of developers to use GitHub Copilot.
Fortunately, previous suspicions about the blocking of GitHub Copilot due to the use of OpenAI technologies in the tool, which blocks Ukrainians from accessing ChatGPT, were not confirmed.