After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it “disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback”
Over 11,000 pull requests have been spotted with the same “tips” injected into descriptions.
Windows Central Sean Endicott
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Discussion
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@martinwoodward
Martin Woodward
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@geerlingguy We've disabled it already. Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky. Disabled product tips entirely thanks to the …
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@aaronontheweb
Aaron Stannard
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Everyone involved with any part of Microsoft's AI strategy needs to be kept away from the keyboard for the next 3 years - they are bad at it almost universally
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@geerlingguy
Jeff Geerling
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Microsoft / GitHub injecting ads into CoPilot generated PRs: welcome to the future! https://notes.zachmanson.com/ ... (yes, this was a confirmed “feature” from someone on the CoPilot team; apparently they are disabling it after backlash)
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@badlogicgames
Mario Zechner
on x
that's hilarious https://notes.zachmanson.com/ ...
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@shoshana
@shoshana
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People hate on AI, but sometimes AI is just faster at things. — Here we see how much faster AI is at enshitification! — notes.zachmanson.com/copilot- edit... [image]
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@bell.bz
Andy Bell
on bluesky
seems suboptimal notes.zachmanson.com/copilot- edit...
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Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub
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@simonw
Simon Willison
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Here's the official line from GitHub on the ads in PRs story - I find this explanation credible personally, it looks to me like it was a poorly considered product tips feature that got out of hand
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@martinwoodward
Martin Woodward
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@WindowsCentral This was a mistake on our side - there were no ad arrangements with any company. What happened is we'd previously included product tips including one that mentioned Raycast in Copilot PR's. These tips were originally meant to only show up in PRs created by Copilot…
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@quinnypig
Corey Quinn
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Holy; I was sure this came from some third party integration or prompt, but nope. It was a feature direct from Microslop itself.
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Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub