<![CDATA[Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.]]>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)

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

What will they think of next?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/a2e9bbb5-2309-49d5-b1ab-f81f153a52a6/interesting-to-see-copilot-injecting-ads-into-pr-descriptions.RSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 07:00:08 GMTMon, 30 Mar 2026 08:00:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 16:42:01 GMT]]>@danluu

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?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/only_ohm/statuses/116511638939379798https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/only_ohm/statuses/116511638939379798Sun, 03 May 2026 16:42:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 16:10:16 GMT]]>@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"?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://phpc.social/users/dirtside/statuses/116511514078031450https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://phpc.social/users/dirtside/statuses/116511514078031450Sun, 03 May 2026 16:10:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 16:00:37 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pawb.fun/users/Neybulot/statuses/116511476098951658https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pawb.fun/users/Neybulot/statuses/116511476098951658Sun, 03 May 2026 16:00:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 15:11:57 GMT]]>@janiczek @danluu I have to relearn my vim skills πŸ™‚

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116511284730980793https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116511284730980793Sun, 03 May 2026 15:11:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 15:02:28 GMT]]>@danluu Is VSCodium affected?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/XLBilly/statuses/116511247448862224https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/XLBilly/statuses/116511247448862224Sun, 03 May 2026 15:02:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:54:25 GMT]]>@danluu

This reply co-authored with Microsoft Copilot.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/Blort/statuses/116510979861519534https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/Blort/statuses/116510979861519534Sun, 03 May 2026 13:54:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:40:26 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ednl/statuses/116510924909945670https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ednl/statuses/116510924909945670Sun, 03 May 2026 13:40:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:31:39 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ednl/statuses/116510890332113033https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ednl/statuses/116510890332113033Sun, 03 May 2026 13:31:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:01:47 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaosfurs.social/users/WooShell/statuses/116510772948075709https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaosfurs.social/users/WooShell/statuses/116510772948075709Sun, 03 May 2026 13:01:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:57:37 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/petealexharris/statuses/116510756530381334https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/petealexharris/statuses/116510756530381334Sun, 03 May 2026 12:57:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:56:14 GMT]]>@gullevek @danluu going back to "artisanal" coding in vim/emacs sounds more and more enticingπŸ‘Œ

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://functional.cafe/users/janiczek/statuses/116510751066936748https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://functional.cafe/users/janiczek/statuses/116510751066936748Sun, 03 May 2026 12:56:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:52:57 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/petealexharris/statuses/116510738183939326https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/petealexharris/statuses/116510738183939326Sun, 03 May 2026 12:52:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:47:28 GMT]]>@moriel @danluu

You and me both. I already swapped to Bazzite on my own PC, any games you want me to test? If I have it I'll report back

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/TeflonTrout/statuses/116510716629412391https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/TeflonTrout/statuses/116510716629412391Sun, 03 May 2026 12:47:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:42:13 GMT]]>@severtz @danluu The Orange Site (Hacker News)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jernej__s/statuses/116510695968113970https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jernej__s/statuses/116510695968113970Sun, 03 May 2026 12:42:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:36:17 GMT]]>@clanger9 AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bots.robots.rodeo/users/scream/statuses/116510672678825384https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bots.robots.rodeo/users/scream/statuses/116510672678825384Sun, 03 May 2026 12:36:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:29:33 GMT]]>@danluu I give up. What is HN?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/severtz/statuses/116510646154468683https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/severtz/statuses/116510646154468683Sun, 03 May 2026 12:29:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:23:41 GMT]]>@danluu I believe it β€œonly” inserts it if you had Co-pilot auto complete enabled and (perhaps?) accepted a completion using tab? but certainly it seems to be an interesting choice…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://akko.erincandescent.net/objects/674ab205-a69e-4d9e-a8d7-ca566a296a64https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://akko.erincandescent.net/objects/674ab205-a69e-4d9e-a8d7-ca566a296a64Sun, 03 May 2026 12:23:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:23:35 GMT]]>@danluu That's a massive amount of damage done to projects which will – without destructively rewriting their history – not receive their "usual" amount of contributions anymore.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/soc/statuses/116510622730063430https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/soc/statuses/116510622730063430Sun, 03 May 2026 12:23:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:22:50 GMT]]>@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?]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fe.disroot.org/objects/ec190d8d-d78f-4e35-8e37-8ba3aab4dbfdhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fe.disroot.org/objects/ec190d8d-d78f-4e35-8e37-8ba3aab4dbfdSun, 03 May 2026 12:22:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:21:56 GMT]]>@unchartedworlds @danluu "bug" πŸ˜…

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/soc/statuses/116510616242493199https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/soc/statuses/116510616242493199Sun, 03 May 2026 12:21:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:09:43 GMT]]>@danluu We are living in a world where it takes outrage to make some people be decent.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/khleedril/statuses/116510568181127313https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/khleedril/statuses/116510568181127313Sun, 03 May 2026 12:09:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:04:13 GMT]]>@danluu seems like a good reason to use codeberg I guess?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/ap/users/116126480050143103/statuses/116510546574929546https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/ap/users/116126480050143103/statuses/116510546574929546Sun, 03 May 2026 12:04:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 12:00:32 GMT]]>@danluu Co-authored-by: Kate πŸ‘

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115683904065635825/statuses/116510532091793930https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115683904065635825/statuses/116510532091793930Sun, 03 May 2026 12:00:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:55:52 GMT]]>@danluu

This makes me want to dump VS Code, even though it doesn't affect me since I do all my git stuff from the command line anyway. Microsoft really does seem to want to drive away their customers. I gave up Visual Studio for Rider already, and probably will switch my desktop at home to some Linux distro once Windows 10 stops being viable for games. But the company I work for is an MS shop, and VS Code is the only viable editor I'm allowed to have on my laptop, so crap like this really get's my dander up

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/moriel/statuses/116510513715519454https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/moriel/statuses/116510513715519454Sun, 03 May 2026 11:55:52 GMT