Using a LLM to fix a spelling mistake is retardedly lazy.
Presumably they used a free version of the LLM, therefore it is completely understandable that it inserted a snippet of text advertising its use into the output. I mean using a free email provider also adds a line of text to the end of every email advertising the service by default - "Sent from iPhone" etc.
Using a LLM to fix a spelling mistake is retardedly lazy.
If you do it manually, sure.
If you have an agent watching for code changes and automatically opening PRs for small fixes that don't need a human-in-the-loop except for approving the change, it's the opposite of lazy. It eliminately all those tedious 1 point stories and let's the team focus on higher value work that actually needs a person to think about it.
Given time all small changes will be done this way, and eventually there won't be a person reviewing them.
That scenario doesn't require any explicit "summoning", and if there's a human in the loop approving the change, certainly they can fix the typo themself.
Sounds like a great use of energy and tokens, not overkill at all
As much as AI uses a lot of energy, having something that fixes issues in the background is very likely to be a net saving if you consider the number of users who fail to complete a task due to the bug and have to either wait in a broken state or retry later.
It's probably using less energy than a person fixing the issue too. That's a guess though.
sed fixes typos faster. The absurd part is watching devs burn prod tokens on glorifed autocorrect, wait through LLM lag for a spelling fix, and then act shocked when the output comes back as word salad with a coupon code glued to the end.
I'm so tired of what initially looks like a perfect normal communication between two people, only to find that some third party has inserted itself like a parasite to exploit and extract human attention. That's why I use our sponsor, nord vpn ...
Why is copilot doing this? If they wanted to show ads couldn’t they… just show ads? Or is GitHub such a house of cards at this point that editing pr descriptions is the only way without risking another 9 of downtime?
Are we sure this actually is originating from MS Copilot itself? Technically I believe it would be possible to smuggle ads into PRs using prompt injection too.
Everyone is doing this now. Granted, on Codex / Claude Code, you can disable it, it’s not the default to have it disabled. For some reason on Cursor, they keep shoving the “Made with Cursor” into my PR description despite me disabling attribution, which looks really stupid on a work PR.
I’m so tired of all this BS. Why did this become normal? and how do we not read this as cheap advertising?
Assuming this isn't a hoax, this seems like a huge, probably unintentional, mistake by MS.
If they genuinely implemented something like this, whatever they made from new customers via ads couldn't possibly make up for the loss of good faith with developers and businesses.
I suppose if it's real we'll see more reports soon, and maybe a mea culpa.
That’s a really tasteful Juno Mail footer implementation for a mistake. If the AI self-invented it on a lark, good job, but it reads very strongly like someone intended it.
One feasible scenario could be that they are working on/experimenting with ads, and it was put behind a feature flag, but for whatever reason it was inadvertently ignored
That’s not implementing it by accident, that’s deliberate. In such a scenario perhaps the deployment was a mistake, but if you don’t write the malware in the first place, it can’t be deployed. (Probably. This is LLM stuff we’re talking about.)
(Yes, this is malware. It’s incontrovertibly adware, and although some will argue that not all adware is malware, this behaviour easily meets the requirements to be deemed malicious.)
It is said, never point a gun at something you’re not willing to shoot. Apply something similar here.
Whenever these things happen, it's always a "mistake", "accident", or "bug" when the outrage is beyond what they expect. If it's limited outrage, it's labeled as enhancing the user experience. And even if it's massive outrage, that "mistake" is added back in a year or two later and never removed.
I think they want the free advertisement, like Apple with its “sent from iPhone” addendums. But “sent from iPhone” is sometimes useful, and significantly shorter. If they just left it at “edited with copilot” I think it would be tolerable
I don't think the issue is the sign-off so much as that an existing PR was edited. Claude Code signs off when creating PRs and nobody seems bothered. But it won't edit an existing PR, and it won't sign off if I simply ask it not too (which I've automated). Editing any PR it touches - including one authored by someone else - is downright rude.
Back in the day, it was useful, as in, "Expect awkward phrasing and unintended effects of autocorrection, because mobile device. This message doesn't necessarily reflect the intent of the sender." (Considerate users would/could edit the signature to something w/o a product name in it.) Nowadays, this is pretty much the norm and no explicit warning ist required anymore.
Microsoft has had a lot of naming blunders in the past but this has to be their worst. Copilot is currently, a tool to review PRs on github, the new name for windows cortana, the new name for microsoft office, a new version of windows laptop/pc, a plugin for VS code that can use many models, and probably a number of other things. None of these products/features have any relation to each other.
So if someone says they use Copilot that could mean anything from they use Word, to they use Claude in VS Code.
>Microsoft has had a lot of naming blunders in the past but this has to be their worst.
Nah I still rate "Windows App" the Windows App that lets you remotely access Windows Apps. I hate it to death, its like a black hole that sucks all meaning from conversations about it.
Pull request, which is a request to merge changes in a git repository.
Or (not in this case) public relations , which is an interface with how the public views your product, service or company. In this case, copilot adding advertising into git pull requests is bad public relations for Microsoft, but the article author is referring to pull request as PR
Just thinking, could it be that your coworker used Raycast to spin up a codex to review and fix the typo on the PR? And that comment was added by Raycast?
It's time to make some money with Copilot and one way to do that is with partnerships.
GitHub's docs and blog make use of and feature Raycast, and I'm willing to bet that's the result of a partnership, and not because someone writing docs and blog posts happens to think Raycast is great and keeps bringing it up.
So I think they’re injecting this as a tip on using Copilot, that just happens to be their integration with Raycast.
I have no idea what their actual partnership with Raycast looks like, maybe this is part of what they offered them? But it’s not a traditional link to another product ad like it appears to be from Raycast being a link.
I doubt it. I noticed a few of these comments too on our PR's. We did ask copilot for a review ton GitHub (we just add copilot as a reviewer) but not through Raycast.
The path of reasoning the agent took that led it to generate the output. The GitHub search bits got posted after my comment, so while it is clearly real, it just seems injected by Raycast.
This is real. I do not have access to the path of reasoning, this ran through the GitHub copilot app which does not grant you access to the chain of thought.
This looks like an ad for only Raycast which does not appear to be affiliated with Microsoft or GitHub at all so blaming Copilot or GitHub here is not justified.
Which does show that this is affiliated with GitHub unlike what I thought. There are no mentions of this string in a code repository on GitHub (including the Raycast copilot extention).
Every company or entity changes over time. Codeberg is great, but with more people using it for free, without donating, and worse, more people abusing the service with some bs AI generate code, malware, etc, more expensive will get to keep it running.. for now they have money, but as e.V in Germany, you survive either from members or from donations.. So use Codeberg, but most important, support it!
In addition, they're doing some very shady stuff re: captchas and accessibility, most likely running some secret patches on their server that they're not publishing in their source tree.
> Its competitors are not magically immune to this kind of spam.
Sure; a platform is a platform is a platform. As for predictions, it is interesting to see whether self-hosting and smaller self-managed infrastructures will gain more traction again.
Most larger orgs I worked for used Gitlab rather than Github.
Anyway, the core value of Github has always been collaboration - this is where people were. If people go to other platforms, this core value dwindles. And switching platforms is not that difficult.
It's becoming clearer and clearer that open-source is our only hope against enshittification. Everything that is VC backed or publicly traded will become enshittified, it's just a matter of time. At least with open-source, you can fork it and remove the "features" or point your agent to it and have it write the feature in your tech stack.
Hell, I just saw an amazing open-source alternative to Raycast[0] and just replaced it the other day.
> It's becoming clearer and clearer that open-source is our only hope against enshittification. Everything that is VC backed or publicly traded will become enshittified, it's just a matter of time.
> open-source is our only hope against enshittification. Everything that is VC backed or publicly traded will become enshittified
Solo founder here. My business is not VC-backed nor publicly traded, and I specifically avoided taking investment so that I can make all the decisions.
I avoid enshittification. This sometimes hurts revenue, but so be it. I wouldn't want to subject my users to anything I wouldn't like.
So, open-source is not the only hope. You can run a sustainable business without enshittification. The problem is money people. The moment money people (career managers, CFOs, etc) take over from product people, the business is on a downward path towards enshittification.
I believe you, it's just I've seen similar stories and the good-intentioned founder gets tired and eventually sells the business and the new owner ends up enshittifying the product. Not saying in the slightest it will happen to your company and I don't hold that against the founder. It's their prerogative after all.
Even when I use proprietary software, I sleep easier at night knowing that open-source alternatives keep them honest in their approach and I have an out if things do change.
I'm not a fan of LLM's injecting themselves into PR/commit content. If you use multiple models, basically whichever one is operating git gets all the credit. But, even if you wrote all the code yourself, and just submitted the PR with Claude Code (or whatever) it would attempt to take credit for the changes.
I currently have rules in all of my skill files forbidding models from advertising themselves or taking credit.
Obnoxious ads in LLM output was my only 2026 prediction. But I expected OpenAI to get there first and wasn't sure whether the AI companies would first add traditional ad boxes or go straight for blighted responses.
Whatever the reason for the inclusion was here, the general problem is much bigger. People / companies / products can influence the direction of AI answers to put them in a better light and to be recommended more often. This isn't limited to just products even.
It's already over, the problem is the missing transparency. With an LLM you have no idea what influenced the answer, and there is no good way to show it to the user.
Satya "please don't say slop" Nadella eat your heart out. Magnificent amounts of value are truly being added by this tech.
I'll add: it doesnt really matter if this was the integration dumbly appending a message or the llm inserting the ad. Judging by the response to this submission, sneaky ad slop is now firmly inside the overton window, so for MS it doesn't make sense NOT to do it.
This is off the hook negligence and abuse they are training ads in on purpose now and think it's cool. We are doomed until it is all open source and only open source.
> Connect Copilot coding agent with Jira, Azure Boards or Linear to delegate work to Copilot in one click without leaving your project management tool.
Honestly, it being a "tip" or "ad" is exactly the same.
What I mean is that even if I take that at face value and accept that it's not an ad, and I can just about see from a certain level of corporate brainwashing how one could believe that, it's still completely unacceptable.
It’s a spot that will easily be replaced with paid ads, for sure. Not sure why it wouldn’t be better to just inject this sort of message into the UI instead of editing the PR text itself. (Except that the team implementing it probably couldn’t get the UI team to agree.)
I do think it's just an ad. Also it's a bad kind of one because 1) it disguises itself as a tip 2) makes people to think if it's an ad for Raycast or other services, when actually it's just promoting itself.
Calling it a "tip" is definitely just a semantic trick to make it slightly less easy to frame a negative response and galvanise opinion against the practise. Reminds me a bit of confirmation shaming (which, now I think about it, I haven't seen in a while) where you're made to click a button that says something like "No, I don't want an amazing 15% off my next order by signing up to your email list".
Microslop for a while now seems to be testing exactly how much you can abuse the user before they move somewhere else. Windows is a prime example. Everything is ads, tracking, popups, annoyances, etc.
They have got away with it for a while because a lot of users have largely been stuck, but they are in real trouble now with Apple providing meaningful competition.
You’re pointing to something entirely different: those are Copilot-created PRs. They can include anything Copilot wants to include. People using the Copilot PR feature know what they’re buying into.
OP is about Copilot doing post-hoc editing of a human-created PR to include an ad, allegedly without knowledge or approval of the creator (well I assume they did give their team member permission to update the PR body, but apparently not for this kind of crap).
It's definitely an ad, I think the only real question is whether it's just marketing Copilot or whether part of their partnership with other companies is advertising the integration in this way. The links all go to Copilot docs pages on the integrations, so they're not typical tracked link advertising campaigns.
It’s like how Disney Plus “ad free” tier shows you ads for Hulu and Disney Perks. They probably redefine “ad” in their terms of service so their own ads are called something else.
I was recently running Copilot CLI in a sandbox on autopilot mode and it kept overriding git config to put only "GitHub Copilot" as commit author instead of my name. Strongly worded instructions weren't helping, I had to resort to the permission system to change this behavior.
I wonder if this is consistent with their terms of service. I mean, maybe they DO take all the responsibility for the code I generate and push in this manner?
It's possible they are safeguarding for possible future changes of copyright law that would give Microsoft copyright over all Copilot contributions. This may sound paranoid but, as far as I know, exactly who counts as an "AI operator", how much authorship an "AI operator" has, and who gets copyright, or whether AI contributions are even in the public domain, are legally untested and unclear issues.
The US Copyright Office has said that AI output from human prompting is not copyrightable. There are caveats, but iterating on prompts results in output that's nobody's IP.
Because it's nobody's IP, Microsoft is already in a position where they could just use, remix and/or distribute that output however they want to today.
I have a somewhat similar problem with github issue templates. They automatically stuff I don't care about or would propose and structure things in ways I don't like. Granted, I can edited this away, but it requires extra time and makes filing issues more work than before. Biggest case in point is the "I will adhere to the Code of Conduct". In general I do not care about CoCs and it is fascinating how CoCs leak into everywhere for some so-called "open source" projects. They don't seem to understand the issue when the licence does not require a CoC; even then the issue is not about the CoC in and by itself (though I also find them pointless), but that extra content is automatically added to issue templates in general, CoCs just being one of many spam-options. And I also recall some donation-ads that are automatically added too - I have no problem when projects request financial support, but if I file an issue then the issue is about the content of the issue, not about anything else.
A little bit off topic but our company recently enforced Microsoft Authenticator for account login. Which I was mildly annoyed about but now I'm super pissed off because they have started abusing the notification permission granted to allow authenticator to work to push out ads for Microsoft 365. It feels like we've gone back to 90s Microsoft when everyone hated them.
This is unsolicited advertisement impersonating the developer (yes people can guess, but this still places it inside a message of the developer and in difference to e.g. mail programs doing it it's not placing it in the draft),
New Section J — AI features, training, and your data: We’ve added a dedicated section that brings all AI-related terms together in one place. Unless you opt out, you grant GitHub and our affiliates a license to collect and use your inputs (e.g., prompts and code context) and outputs (e.g., suggestions) to develop, train, and improve AI models.
We should not be using Copilot in the first place.
nialse | 5 hours ago
Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.
longislandguido | 5 hours ago
I'm reminded of Jay Mohr's legendary take some years back on the creepy Carl's Jr. commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJlYRS2Vqkw
blitzar | 4 hours ago
dinakernel | 5 hours ago
daemin | 5 hours ago
Presumably they used a free version of the LLM, therefore it is completely understandable that it inserted a snippet of text advertising its use into the output. I mean using a free email provider also adds a line of text to the end of every email advertising the service by default - "Sent from iPhone" etc.
LeoPanthera | 5 hours ago
onion2k | 5 hours ago
If you do it manually, sure.
If you have an agent watching for code changes and automatically opening PRs for small fixes that don't need a human-in-the-loop except for approving the change, it's the opposite of lazy. It eliminately all those tedious 1 point stories and let's the team focus on higher value work that actually needs a person to think about it.
Given time all small changes will be done this way, and eventually there won't be a person reviewing them.
pabrams | 5 hours ago
ex-aws-dude | 4 hours ago
In fact I don't even use Ctrl + F anymore and instead just use Claude for all my searches
onion2k | 3 hours ago
As much as AI uses a lot of energy, having something that fixes issues in the background is very likely to be a net saving if you consider the number of users who fail to complete a task due to the bug and have to either wait in a broken state or retry later.
It's probably using less energy than a person fixing the issue too. That's a guess though.
hrmtst93837 | 3 hours ago
hexasquid | 5 hours ago
pants2 | 5 hours ago
Brought to you by Wendy's.
WD-42 | 5 hours ago
oefrha | 5 hours ago
(That said I’m rather skeptical of this and would like to see more details of the process that produced this, and proof.)
Edit: Just noticed this official GitHub blog post from last month advertising Raycast, making this story a lot more believable: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-17-assign-issues-to-co...
MattGaiser | 4 hours ago
oefrha | 4 hours ago
rob74 | 3 hours ago
acka | 17 minutes ago
Also, the documentation on Github, linked to by the ad, shows only Mac keyboard shortcuts for operating Raycast.
flogy | 4 hours ago
lionkor | 2 hours ago
politelemon | 3 hours ago
I think this is a ray cast issue, looking at these links. It appears on gitlab too, which is enough for me.
with | 5 hours ago
I’m so tired of all this BS. Why did this become normal? and how do we not read this as cheap advertising?
annie511266728 | 4 hours ago
A little "made with X" in your own draft is one thing. Putting branding into a PR your coworkers have to read is another.
post_below | 5 hours ago
If they genuinely implemented something like this, whatever they made from new customers via ads couldn't possibly make up for the loss of good faith with developers and businesses.
I suppose if it's real we'll see more reports soon, and maybe a mea culpa.
altairprime | 5 hours ago
chrismorgan | 5 hours ago
bigyabai | 4 hours ago
mathieudombrock | 3 hours ago
Commercial front-ends just hide the random seed parameters.
kortilla | 3 hours ago
sheept | 4 hours ago
chrismorgan | 3 hours ago
(Yes, this is malware. It’s incontrovertibly adware, and although some will argue that not all adware is malware, this behaviour easily meets the requirements to be deemed malicious.)
It is said, never point a gun at something you’re not willing to shoot. Apply something similar here.
rhet0rica | 4 hours ago
z Quickly spin up Hacker News comments from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with a lobotomy.
eCa | 2 hours ago
Is that the most charitable way?
goodusername | 5 hours ago
But it really seems like an own goal if true.
boredpudding | 4 hours ago
tossandthrow | 5 hours ago
If you look at the positioning, someone has definitely justified that this is benign and a reasonable place to have an ad added in.
ccppurcell | 4 hours ago
kdheiwns | 2 hours ago
devsda | an hour ago
idkwhatimdoing2 | 5 hours ago
time is money, save both. try ramp.
pabrams | 5 hours ago
MattGaiser | 4 hours ago
icar | 4 hours ago
deredede | 3 hours ago
shafyy | 2 hours ago
GN0515 | 5 hours ago
pinkmuffinere | 5 hours ago
silisili | 4 hours ago
If you don't want copilot garbage in your PRs, maybe don't use copilot to create or edit them?
winrid | 4 hours ago
[OP] pavo-etc | 3 hours ago
computomatic | 4 hours ago
marcus_holmes | 4 hours ago
Not only unbothered, but genuinely appreciative of the notification.
sph | an hour ago
That's a great feature. When I open a repo and I see most commits co-authored by Claude, I can quickly dismiss the entire project as slop.
politelemon | 3 hours ago
No, it is still an advert, and not useful in the least.
masswerk | 3 hours ago
supernes | 3 hours ago
ahoka | an hour ago
Comment made using Mozilla Firefox.
turtleyacht | 5 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raycast_(software)
Ray casting, however, is different:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting
anshumankmr | 5 hours ago
ex-aws-dude | 5 hours ago
"It looks like the user wants to add a database, I've gone ahead and implemented the database using today's sponsor: MongoDB"
tossandthrow | 5 hours ago
nubinetwork | 4 hours ago
(sure, I was working on something embedded, and asked for a recommendation, but it seemed quite intent that it wanted me to use that specific board)
martianlantern | 5 hours ago
simonw | 5 hours ago
SchemaLoad | 5 hours ago
So if someone says they use Copilot that could mean anything from they use Word, to they use Claude in VS Code.
hsbauauvhabzb | 4 hours ago
protocolture | 4 hours ago
Nah I still rate "Windows App" the Windows App that lets you remotely access Windows Apps. I hate it to death, its like a black hole that sucks all meaning from conversations about it.
ValentineC | 4 hours ago
[OP] pavo-etc | 4 hours ago
napo | 5 hours ago
Either of these options would still be bad, but here the author suggests that it's just copilot that now just injects ads in its output.
[OP] pavo-etc | 4 hours ago
Surac | 5 hours ago
hsbauauvhabzb | 4 hours ago
Or (not in this case) public relations , which is an interface with how the public views your product, service or company. In this case, copilot adding advertising into git pull requests is bad public relations for Microsoft, but the article author is referring to pull request as PR
hsbauauvhabzb | 4 hours ago
Sent by my iPhone using tapatalk
khvirabyan | 4 hours ago
1una | 4 hours ago
ayhanfuat | 4 hours ago
lexicality | 2 hours ago
crimsoneer | 4 hours ago
connorgurney | 3 hours ago
heavyset_go | 3 hours ago
GitHub's docs and blog make use of and feature Raycast, and I'm willing to bet that's the result of a partnership, and not because someone writing docs and blog posts happens to think Raycast is great and keeps bringing it up.
tonyedgecombe | 3 hours ago
mcintyre1994 | 3 hours ago
So I think they’re injecting this as a tip on using Copilot, that just happens to be their integration with Raycast.
I have no idea what their actual partnership with Raycast looks like, maybe this is part of what they offered them? But it’s not a traditional link to another product ad like it appears to be from Raycast being a link.
mavamaarten | 3 hours ago
thombles | 3 hours ago
MattGaiser | 4 hours ago
gpvos | 4 hours ago
MattGaiser | 4 hours ago
[OP] pavo-etc | 3 hours ago
charcircuit | 4 hours ago
Edit: The link in the promotion goes to https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agent...
Which does show that this is affiliated with GitHub unlike what I thought. There are no mentions of this string in a code repository on GitHub (including the Raycast copilot extention).
anton-g | 4 hours ago
jruohonen | 4 hours ago
marcus_holmes | 4 hours ago
steve1977 | 3 hours ago
sumuyuda | 3 hours ago
hvb2 | 58 minutes ago
https://status.codefloe.com/
Unhealthy doesn't mean unusable but it sounded great until I checked that.
sumuyuda | 33 minutes ago
ahartmetz | 2 hours ago
steve1977 | 2 hours ago
ahartmetz | an hour ago
pelasaco | 2 hours ago
Every company or entity changes over time. Codeberg is great, but with more people using it for free, without donating, and worse, more people abusing the service with some bs AI generate code, malware, etc, more expensive will get to keep it running.. for now they have money, but as e.V in Germany, you survive either from members or from donations.. So use Codeberg, but most important, support it!
arcanemachiner | an hour ago
maxloh | 2 hours ago
miki123211 | an hour ago
progval | an hour ago
raincole | 3 hours ago
jruohonen | 3 hours ago
Sure; a platform is a platform is a platform. As for predictions, it is interesting to see whether self-hosting and smaller self-managed infrastructures will gain more traction again.
Brosper | 3 hours ago
officialchicken | 3 hours ago
ahartmetz | 2 hours ago
By the way, most pre-industry-standard FOSS projects still have their own infrastructure. I do find it disappointing that Rust is on GitHub.
bayindirh | 2 hours ago
...for now.
> like JIRA
is not an industry standard. It's a widely used software by some folks. I used it in the past, not using now, for example.
> Maybe it's just an experiment at this moment.
Does Microsoft understand objection and negative feedback to experiments?
dvfjsdhgfv | 2 hours ago
Anyway, the core value of Github has always been collaboration - this is where people were. If people go to other platforms, this core value dwindles. And switching platforms is not that difficult.
KGunnerud | 3 hours ago
theturtletalks | 2 hours ago
Hell, I just saw an amazing open-source alternative to Raycast[0] and just replaced it the other day.
0. https://github.com/ospfranco/sol
jjav | 2 hours ago
Stallman was always right, after all.
majewsky | 2 hours ago
jwr | an hour ago
Solo founder here. My business is not VC-backed nor publicly traded, and I specifically avoided taking investment so that I can make all the decisions.
I avoid enshittification. This sometimes hurts revenue, but so be it. I wouldn't want to subject my users to anything I wouldn't like.
So, open-source is not the only hope. You can run a sustainable business without enshittification. The problem is money people. The moment money people (career managers, CFOs, etc) take over from product people, the business is on a downward path towards enshittification.
theturtletalks | an hour ago
Even when I use proprietary software, I sleep easier at night knowing that open-source alternatives keep them honest in their approach and I have an out if things do change.
sekai | 2 hours ago
petcat | 42 minutes ago
It will be there for as long as you (and everyone else) keep using it.
anton-g | 4 hours ago
politelemon | 4 hours ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570820
heavyset_go | 3 hours ago
oakpond | 4 hours ago
ookblah | 4 hours ago
iomer | 4 hours ago
raincole | 4 hours ago
vcryan | 4 hours ago
I currently have rules in all of my skill files forbidding models from advertising themselves or taking credit.
gherkinnn | 4 hours ago
bryanhogan | 4 hours ago
SV_BubbleTime | 4 hours ago
See you on neural links before “sponsored thoughts”.
bryanhogan | 3 hours ago
hackable_sand | 3 hours ago
rmnclmnt | 4 hours ago
isoprophlex | 4 hours ago
I'll add: it doesnt really matter if this was the integration dumbly appending a message or the llm inserting the ad. Judging by the response to this submission, sneaky ad slop is now firmly inside the overton window, so for MS it doesn't make sense NOT to do it.
upmostly | 3 hours ago
"Sent from my iPhone"?
logicallee | 3 hours ago
starkeeper | 3 hours ago
ZeroGravitas | 3 hours ago
baliex | 3 hours ago
^I find that turn of phrase to be particularly pleasing in this context.
probably_wrong | 2 hours ago
crvdgc | 3 hours ago
plastic041 | 3 hours ago
https://github.com/PlagueHO/plagueho.github.io/pull/24#issue... Copilot has been adding "(emoji) (tip)" thing since May 2025. GitHub copilot was released in May 2025, so basically it has had an ad since beginning.
There are 1.5m of these things in GitHub. https://github.com/search?q=%22%3C%21--+START+COPILOT+CODING...
Here are some of them:
https://github.com/johannesPP/FS-Calculator/pull/2
> Connect Copilot coding agent with Jira, Azure Boards or Linear to delegate work to Copilot in one click without leaving your project management tool.
https://github.com/sharthomas645-tech/HybridAI-Next-React-Vi...
> Send tasks to Copilot coding agent from Slack and Teams to turn conversations into code. Copilot posts an update in your thread when it's finished.
Looks like MS really want to "give tips" about their new integrations.
edit: I think it's an ad too. Everyone would think so, except for MS.
esperent | 3 hours ago
What I mean is that even if I take that at face value and accept that it's not an ad, and I can just about see from a certain level of corporate brainwashing how one could believe that, it's still completely unacceptable.
lwhi | 2 hours ago
skywhopper | 2 hours ago
heavyset_go | an hour ago
Otherwise, it would just be Github with displayed ads and that would hurt the brand, so everyone gets ads.
plastic041 | 2 hours ago
ccozan | 2 hours ago
frereubu | an hour ago
b00ty4breakfast | an hour ago
It's not like this is organic word of mouth we're dealing with here.
plastic041 | an hour ago
frereubu | an hour ago
plastic041 | 33 minutes ago
That's what I wanted to say! Thank you.
Cthulhu_ | 2 hours ago
BLKNSLVR | an hour ago
You'll never guess what happens next.
(Hint: everyone knows what happens next)
Gigachad | an hour ago
They have got away with it for a while because a lot of users have largely been stuck, but they are in real trouble now with Apple providing meaningful competition.
oefrha | an hour ago
You’re pointing to something entirely different: those are Copilot-created PRs. They can include anything Copilot wants to include. People using the Copilot PR feature know what they’re buying into.
OP is about Copilot doing post-hoc editing of a human-created PR to include an ad, allegedly without knowledge or approval of the creator (well I assume they did give their team member permission to update the PR body, but apparently not for this kind of crap).
red_admiral | 56 minutes ago
Including Windows, File Explorer, Start Menu, ...
It seems with the latest "ok we went too far" Win11 patch though, they got some tips back from their users.
ttyyzz | 44 minutes ago
mcintyre1994 | 26 minutes ago
rubyfan | 18 minutes ago
mememememememo | 3 hours ago
wiseowise | 3 hours ago
simonjgreen | 3 hours ago
paweladamczuk | 3 hours ago
I wonder if this is consistent with their terms of service. I mean, maybe they DO take all the responsibility for the code I generate and push in this manner?
jonathanstrange | 2 hours ago
heavyset_go | 48 minutes ago
Because it's nobody's IP, Microsoft is already in a position where they could just use, remix and/or distribute that output however they want to today.
LtWorf | 2 hours ago
shevy-java | 2 hours ago
VBprogrammer | 2 hours ago
andai | 2 hours ago
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caijia | 2 hours ago
But I'm also paying the plan. Theres something odd about a tool which i paid for using my output to AD itself.
6510 | 2 hours ago
croes | 2 hours ago
dathinab | an hour ago
I don't see how this is supposed to be legal.
volkadav | an hour ago
Sheesh.
neya | an hour ago
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-priv...
We should not be using Copilot in the first place.heavyset_go | an hour ago
cromulent | 52 minutes ago
https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023555-how-do-you-u...
heavyset_go | 46 minutes ago
dekoidal | an hour ago
Luker88 | 30 minutes ago
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Self-advertisement has been creeping up on us on a lot of places, I am unfortunately pessimistic on how this will turn out