GitHub CoPilot edits advertisement into user's PR https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/

[gytisrepecka@social.gyt.is]

@cwebber It was always a question of "when", not "if", it seems

[hajovonta@mastodon.online]

@gytisrepecka
as is always the case with Microsoft products.

@cwebber

[boo_@im-in.space]

@cwebber

Kind of besides the point but

"Summoned Copilot correct a typo in a PR" hoooly overkill what

[remmy@social.treehouse.systems]

@cwebber

Very cool, makes the slop even more evident.

[cwebber@social.coop]

"Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot's coding agent" https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/

Microsoft rolled it back and used the most weasel'y wording language imagineable to say they did so https://twitter.com/martinwoodward/status/2038612131084464521

> 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 feedback.

"product tips" lmao

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@cwebber "Just the tips"

[tock@corteximplant.com]

@cwebber "They're not ads, they're *suggestions*!"

-- Microsoft Windows PR guy, having a conniption fit somewhere...

[bonzoesc@m.bonzoesc.net]

@cwebber

Thanks for looking at this pull request! As a tip, try enjoying a delicious can of White Monster while you review it!

[fullyabstract@fosstodon.org]

@cwebber The ads are in the commit messages, or the committed code? (It wasn't obvious to me after reading the article, but I probably missed it.)

[hannah@moonserver.yorha.nexus]

@fullyabstract@fosstodon.org @cwebber@social.coop In the commit discussion/messages. Not the code itself.

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@cwebber Also "kinda" and "icky" feel horribly out of place in that context

[wakame@tech.lgbt]

@cwebber Somewhere in Redmond, a product manager circles today's date on a 2027 calendar: "Relaunch pull request ads."

[vv@solarpunk.moe]

@cwebber i like how at the bottom of the article about the ads, there's a message about how you should disable your ad blocker for the website

[freakazoid@retro.social]

@cwebber Claude Code has started adding "Made with Claude Code" to PR descriptions and "Coauthored-By" on commits. This appears to be hardcoded in its system prompt.

[cwebber@social.coop]

@vv classic

[vv@solarpunk.moe]

@freakazoid @cwebber this to me is a good thing, for accountability. though im sure you can instruct it to not do that. and of course you can rewrite your git history.

[jeremiah@tldr.nettime.org]

@freakazoid

I support this. Makes it easier to tell if I need to be on higher alert than normal when looking at the work.

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

@lanodan @cwebber "oopsy-woopsy, we did a fucky-wucky! pwease don't be mad at widdle old us"