alt Hacker NewsCopilot edited an ad into my PR
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MS needs to slow down their user hostility otherwise everyone will notice.
The irony when NeoWin covers it's whole page with "promoted content" when you try and back out of the page.
what kind of turd uses ai to correct a typo
As companies get more and more desperate to show profitable use of AI expect more and more of these Hail Mary attempts to get traction.
The runway on free cash to fund the current bonanza is running out and crunch time is near.
I remember open-source projects announcing their intent to leave GitHub in 2018, as it was being acquired by Microsoft. I was thinking to myself back then: "It's really just a free Git hosting service, and Git was designed to be decentralized at its very core. They don't own anything, only provide the storage and bandwidth. How are they even going to enshittify this?".
8 years later, this is where we are. I'm honestly just stunned, it takes some real talent to run a company that does it as consistently well as Microsoft.
Damn Microsoft out here really finding new ways to serve ads.
Hooray! This is the future we've all hoped for!
Was Raycast bought by GitHub or something? Why would it be advertising for Raycast?
Brought to you by Wendy's.
It reminds me of Anthropic's Super Bowl ad: “Can I get a six pack quickly?” It actually turned out to be true.
This is off the hook negligence and abuse they are training ads in on purpose now and think it's cool. We are doomed until it is all open source and only open source.
Decision time, Western man: will you let the “tehe, just a miwtake xsxd UwU” slide or will you do something about? This is just a first pebble.
After hiring the brightest minds on the planet for years, the best these companies can think of is more ads.
outrageous!
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Self-advertisement has been creeping up on us on a lot of places, I am unfortunately pessimistic on how this will turn out
It’s even worse than the title says. As some other comments point out, this is in millions of repositories across GitHub.
More like, “Copilot edits ads into PRs.”
The title almost makes it sound like it could be a single fluke/one bad prompt but it’s really enshitification at massive scale.
https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...
This seems to be happening a lot, not sure it is actually intentional
Anyone have an example?
Is Raycast even a product of Microsoft? If not, are we witnessing the first large scale prompt injection abuse?
Do you drive by a billboard that reads
Does advertising work?
Just did!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raycast_(software)
Ray casting, however, is different:
Isn’t this more of a Raycast issue (apparently an agentic ai service) instead of GH Copilot itself?
I notice this kind of "Sent from iPhone"-type spam with other AI tools too. It's awful.
Time to get GitLab.
So does Claude, Codex, and Cursor. Albeit more subtle, but they are hardly shy about it
On the bright side, at least it's in the PR text and not the code? (... yet?)
Sheesh.
I miss the good old days whem there were "hire me" ads in NPM installs.
feels like it's just hardcoded into the prompt. not even trying to be subtle about it.
as a non native speaker here please explain the meaning of PR to me.
Well, CoPilot is a GitHub technology, and they're telling you that AI wrote the PR. It's not _that_ bad. I suppose they could distill it to "Written with CoPilot" with a link for more information.
At some point he who pays the piper was going to call the tune...
Similar to the Second Law of Thermodynamics which states entropy tends to increase over time in a closed system, I propose the Nth Law of Privatization: enshitification tends to increase with market capitalization/share over time.
The future is here! Glorious ads that will make you so efficient! Save time coding by consuming ads, you were never going to attain expert level professional skills anyways.
It's the same with Claude Code actually, and recently Codex too...
Claude never used to do this but at some point it started adding itself by default as a co-author on every commit.
Literally, in the last week, Codex started making all it's branches as "codex-feature-name", and will continue to do so, even if you tell it to never do that again.
Really, really annoying.
microslop at it again
Enshittification will ruin AI the same way it ruined the WWW and YouTube. We're in the golden era right now. Not 2027, 2028. Now now. The ads are coming.
Satya "please don't say slop" Nadella eat your heart out. Magnificent amounts of value are truly being added by this tech.
I'll add: it doesnt really matter if this was the integration dumbly appending a message or the llm inserting the ad. Judging by the response to this submission, sneaky ad slop is now firmly inside the overton window, so for MS it doesn't make sense NOT to do it.
Not surprised at all, just another enshitified product by Microsoft. Carry on.
Next up: watch a 30-second unskippable video ad to see your CI error logs!
"Save time by changing your default browser to edge and enabling onedrive"
"just tips bro"
Its like microsoft wants to be google, except its very intrusive.
time is money, save both. try ramp.
Seriously? Dont they want their system to succeed? I cant think of a better way of alienating the target customer than this.
At this point, Microsoft has lost all trust anyone might have had for them or their products.
Now is the time to move to Linux, and vibe code whatever niceties are keeping you on GitHub.
Hopefully it is just copilot that is dying and not GitHub itself.
What on earth is going on with that awful header moving around the page?
crappy much. wow.
People, we just solved the LLM watermarking problem.
I'm so tired of what initially looks like a perfect normal communication between two people, only to find that some third party has inserted itself like a parasite to exploit and extract human attention. That's why I use our sponsor, nord vpn ...
Sent-from-my-iPhone 2.0
Cursor added 'made with cursor' to its commits recently. I guess its just the dirction things are going that the tools are now self-promoting.