Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.
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@danluu the word injection makes it sound like ominous third party manipulation, but is this just microsoft being microsoft?
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@nina_kali_nina @danluu MS advertise lots of third party garbage in all their other UIs though?
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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?
@danluu@mastodon.social I thought this is appended on the API side and not actually stored in the DB. Half of this stuff will no longer exist in a year lol
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@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @miclgael@hachyderm.io @danluu@mastodon.social it links to github docs
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@nina_kali_nina @danluu MS advertise lots of third party garbage in all their other UIs though?
@nina_kali_nina @danluu interestingly I tried to scan a URL of one of the ads for malware and cloudflare refused 🫠
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@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @miclgael@hachyderm.io @danluu@mastodon.social it links to github docs
@mkljczk @nina_kali_nina @danluu
I think the annoying thing for me is I can't tell if:
- Copilot inject ad now
- User found dodgy free tier wrapper around copilot that inject ad now
- Autonomously deployed AI bot farm for injecting ad inject ad nowBecause all outputs look the same because Microsoft hold a gigantic foot cannon and aim it at the crater where their feet used to be, daily.
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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?
@danluu the thing i always find most baffling is people using AI for tasks that are already solved:
GitHub already contains a dependency updater that doesn't rely on AI and a lot of languages also have dependency updaters that can easily be executed in GitHub actions for free
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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?
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@danluu you'd think they'd have the technology to make this more sneaky and personalized than copying/pasting the same message to 11000 people
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@imbl @danluu funny marketing to have the example video not do anything except show a loading bar long enough for me to click away without learning about it.
I guess thats like Nintendo in their ads for Switch 2 being honest about low framerates and lag if you try to play Mario Kart World with friends.
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@mahryekuh or maybe the tokens are too expensive to waste them on ads
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@mkljczk @nina_kali_nina @danluu
I think the annoying thing for me is I can't tell if:
- Copilot inject ad now
- User found dodgy free tier wrapper around copilot that inject ad now
- Autonomously deployed AI bot farm for injecting ad inject ad nowBecause all outputs look the same because Microsoft hold a gigantic foot cannon and aim it at the crater where their feet used to be, daily.
@miclgael@hachyderm.io @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @danluu@mastodon.social can confirm this is simply what agentic PRs look like on copilot pro
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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?
@danluu H'mmm.
I've responded (to one instance). But it's not only Copilot that is guilty of these frivolous HELLO WORLD pull requests.
Here's #Claude doing one:
https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pull/47763Here's a bot called devin-ai-integration doing one:
https://github.com/COG-GTM/ETL-Pipeline/pull/50Here's a bot called kiro-agent doing one:
https://github.com/Moebats/hello-world/pull/2It seems(?) that bots can only attack in this way if you have authorised them on your account. Go to https://github.com/settings/applications and revoke!
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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?
@danluu It's pretty depressing... for AI coding assist like Antigravity, I prefer it doesn't write the commit log and deal with that myself, so it should be immune.
It's a warning though, remote AI is your coding buddy who wants to help, but ultimately there's the danger it's the AI version of someone who befriends you in order to report on you to management.
But where's the selfhostable coding assist that's competitive with, eg, Gemini 3.1?
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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?
@danluu they are just so lame
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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?
@danluu cant wait for penis enlargement popup ads on github -
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?
@danluu I look forward to Microsoft inserting ads into my Github Pages hosted blog.
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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?
@danluu Let's just hope they haven't seen the film of A Clockwork Orange...
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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’s icky.
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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?
