<![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://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/4f765025-c14f-4abe-99b1-d169e9a78f42/interesting-to-see-copilot-injecting-ads-into-pr-descriptions.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 05:38:17 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 12:42:13 GMT]]>@severtz @danluu The Orange Site (Hacker News)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jernej__s/statuses/116510695968113970https://board.circlewithadot.net/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://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bots.robots.rodeo/users/scream/statuses/116510672678825384https://board.circlewithadot.net/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://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/severtz/statuses/116510646154468683https://board.circlewithadot.net/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 “only” 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://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://akko.erincandescent.net/objects/674ab205-a69e-4d9e-a8d7-ca566a296a64https://board.circlewithadot.net/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://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/soc/statuses/116510622730063430https://board.circlewithadot.net/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://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fe.disroot.org/objects/ec190d8d-d78f-4e35-8e37-8ba3aab4dbfdhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/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" 😅

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/soc/statuses/116510616242493199https://board.circlewithadot.net/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://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/khleedril/statuses/116510568181127313https://board.circlewithadot.net/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://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/ap/users/116126480050143103/statuses/116510546574929546https://board.circlewithadot.net/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 👍

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115683904065635825/statuses/116510532091793930https://board.circlewithadot.net/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://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/moriel/statuses/116510513715519454https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaosfem.tw/users/moriel/statuses/116510513715519454Sun, 03 May 2026 11:55:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:44:21 GMT]]>@danluu this seems really desperate, to me. Trying to juice their stats either internally, for investors, or both. Is there a better interpretation than as a sign things aren't going well?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/rndeon/statuses/116510468436749655https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/rndeon/statuses/116510468436749655Sun, 03 May 2026 11:44:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:28:23 GMT]]>@danluu What does this mean for copyrighted code? Wasn't there something like 'if AI is involved, then no copyright'? Somehow this smells like incoming lawsuit...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://curly.cat/ap/users/116213285519881300/statuses/116510405688125626https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://curly.cat/ap/users/116213285519881300/statuses/116510405688125626Sun, 03 May 2026 11:28:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:18:40 GMT]]>@danluu
One more reason I feel justified in no longer using GitHub

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://foojay.social/users/infosec812/statuses/116510367473381234https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://foojay.social/users/infosec812/statuses/116510367473381234Sun, 03 May 2026 11:18:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:18:32 GMT]]>@danluu
DMCA takedown request as it is fraudulently claiming authorship/copyright?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/vampirdaddy/statuses/116510366944630336https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/vampirdaddy/statuses/116510366944630336Sun, 03 May 2026 11:18:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:43:50 GMT]]>@danluu secretly modifying the source even when ai slop is turned off and then hiding the changes in the git commit view?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dec_hl/statuses/116510230459161359https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dec_hl/statuses/116510230459161359Sun, 03 May 2026 10:43:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:37:38 GMT]]>@OmegaPolice @danluu

One might even suspect this "feature" was intentional: To get more acceptable PRs which were seemingly made with AI and thus confuse people whether they can recognize AI slop.

"Look, this is a perfectly good PR and it was made with AI".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/116510206077296719https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/116510206077296719Sun, 03 May 2026 10:37:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:25:03 GMT]]>@danluu

I gathered from the HN discussion that this "feature" wasn't supposed to ignore whether you'd really used Copilot: apparently there was a bug in the part which was supposed to detect whether you had or hadn't.

Of course even for people who had used it, it's still rude to make the added message be opt-out!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scicomm.xyz/users/unchartedworlds/statuses/116510156642750888https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://scicomm.xyz/users/unchartedworlds/statuses/116510156642750888Sun, 03 May 2026 10:25:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:17:54 GMT]]>@danluu Apparently the slopmachines can't be trusted to credit themselves reliably? Go figure. 🤭

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/OmegaPolice/statuses/116510128519790576https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/OmegaPolice/statuses/116510128519790576Sun, 03 May 2026 10:17:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:10:38 GMT]]>@danluu I am so glad I steered clear of this veritable pile of garbage.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116510099909485319https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116510099909485319Sun, 03 May 2026 10:10:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:09:08 GMT]]>@danluu
Will it do this through the terminal, do you know?
I've never used the vscode git tools.

(edit) I don't know what sort of sauce they inject into their terminal sessions.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/ohmrun/statuses/116510094050164032https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/ohmrun/statuses/116510094050164032Sun, 03 May 2026 10:09:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 08:19:17 GMT]]>@danluu another reason to stick using the 'git' command from CLi directly

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/madduci/statuses/116509662077189155https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/madduci/statuses/116509662077189155Sun, 03 May 2026 08:19:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 08:14:31 GMT]]>@davidgerard ⬆️ llmao of the month

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dngrs/statuses/116509643356598946https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dngrs/statuses/116509643356598946Sun, 03 May 2026 08:14:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. on Sun, 03 May 2026 08:04:22 GMT]]>@danluu Oh lovely enshittification

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116509603398246507https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116509603398246507Sun, 03 May 2026 08:04:22 GMT