Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions.
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@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?
@danluu I would usually act surprised, because this is the WTF to end all WTF’s..
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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 Is this something intentional from Micro$lop/GitHub, or just people engineering ShartGPT/Copilot into posting ads to their shit? -
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 Suckers getting suckered.
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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
Clammy Sammy already told us: “AI” porn. -
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 always did that. At first it was just advertising a survey, that would put you on a raffle to win some free copilot credits. Now that this offer is over, they moved to this more generic message. But it is like that since day 0, and only for copilot authored/assigned prs. They are not doing any of that (yet?) for human authored/assigned prs
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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 Well, the usual monetization cycle is ads -> porn -> crime.
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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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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 remember when you had to install sketchy software to make Microsoft products work the way they do now, full of ads, infostealers and bloat.
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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 PRs containing ads should get closed automatically with no examination and the initiator should be blocked. They are spam.
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does that means our own ads in PR are now legal?
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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 If they're already manipulating the metadata, how long until they inject their slop into the code itself?
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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 Tweaking the github query string I found 1.5M pull requests containing a copilot ad of some form: https://github.com/search?q=%22START+COPILOT+CODING+AGENT+TIPS%22&type=pullrequests .
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@danluu Tweaking the github query string I found 1.5M pull requests containing a copilot ad of some form: https://github.com/search?q=%22START+COPILOT+CODING+AGENT+TIPS%22&type=pullrequests .
@danluu This topic gained attraction on the ycombinator board, and it seems that github staff claim responsability for inserting "tips" into the PR descriptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233 .
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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 Don't worry, someone from the relevant team at GitHub has said on HN that they "won't do it again".
(Someone else on HN has started a betting market on that claim, heh.)
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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.
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@mkljczk also if "ads" is all microslop has left to turn a profit with this, it's kinda over.
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@danluu PRs containing ads should get closed automatically with no examination and the initiator should be blocked. They are spam.
