Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.
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@danluu Oh lovely enshittification
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@ShnoofleBear @danluu
It doesn't look like a lawsuit, but it does look like stern memos from the legal department of any company shipping code or a product containing code to stop using copilot immediately.@ShnoofleBear @danluu
On rethinking, it may be that you still have copyright protection on code you co-wrote with someone else, so it might not be so legally scary, just offensive and anti-customer, which is par for the course for microsoft products. -
I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu If you can't get people to actually use your AI shit, you can at least fake the usage records to please your shareholders..
Honestly, this kind of shit should be grounds for a class action lawsuit..claiming co-authorship on other people's code has to be illegal in some way. -
I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu Jfc. I haven't experienced this, perhaps because I blocked the Copilot user on GitHub. But I also disabled all AI features in VS Code and that should already have been enough.
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@danluu
> It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
Are we sure it's possible to use VS Code without using Copilot?@greytheearthling @danluu Nominally, sure. Every Copilot/chat feature can be disabled in Settings. See a few examples attached. The question is now if that really disables everything.
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
This reply co-authored with Microsoft Copilot.
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu Is VSCodium affected?
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu They don't think. Microsoft is A) starting to hire more and more contractors to replace full-time software engineers and B) requiring everyone in the company to vibecode 30% of their code down to a metric that's even on employee reviews, which is how idiotic stuff like this happens.
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I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
@danluu at this point in history, how can anyone look at the literally *hundreds* of blatantly unethical things Microsoft has done over the course of its existence and say "yeah this is a company I trust"?
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Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)
What will they think of next?
That ad contains three trademarks, two of them registered, two of them not owned by the vendors of Copilot, and none of them accompanied by clear licence terms. Isn't that sufficient justification to summarily reject the PR without having to waste time inspecting its contents?
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