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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to [email protected]English • 2 months ago

Copilot is now injecting ads into PR descriptions

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Copilot is now injecting ads into PR descriptions

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to [email protected]English • 2 months ago
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Attached: 4 images 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?
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    10•2 months ago

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

    • db0
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      1•2 months ago

      I believe that it happened, but I’m not yet convinced it wasn’t some sort of bug. But I want to believe!

      • melroy
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        9•2 months ago

        It’s not a bug… It’s promoting Raycast. The initial link goes to the github docs https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/coding-agent/create-a-pr#asking-copilot-to-create-a-pull-request-from-raycast

        Which again points to https://www.raycast.com/

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          so it seems raycast embeds this promo with link

          • melroy
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            No, so it’s still just github copilot code review (bot). https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/code-review#introduction

            Which is embedding this link of Raycast. Meaning Raycast is paying Microsoft for sure to get included in the bot comments or pr descriptions.

            • tracyspcy
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              2•2 months ago

              It is so uncool even sad

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      1•2 months ago

      It looks like the pull requests were authored by humans, then edited by the bot. I use codeberg, not github, so I’m not that familiar with the service. Does github have some kind of opt-in/opt-out llm editor feature, or is the bot just going around editing random pull requests?

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