Copilot edited an ad into my PR

Next up: watch a 30-second unskippable video ad to see your CI error logs!

At this point, Microsoft has lost all trust anyone might have had for them or their products.

Now is the time to move to Linux, and vibe code whatever niceties are keeping you on GitHub.

Hopefully it is just copilot that is dying and not GitHub itself.

What on earth is going on with that awful header moving around the page?

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.

Why are they doing this?

Seriously? Dont they want their system to succeed? I cant think of a better way of alienating the target customer than this.

crappy much. wow.

People, we just solved the LLM watermarking problem.

Sent-from-my-iPhone 2.0

I don't see an ad, I see a warning. I like it.

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.

Isn't this the same as

"Sent from my iPhone"?

Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem

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.

One more step closer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM1rSObk4c

It was only a matter of time.

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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?

But... why?

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.

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).

Post the trajectory if this is real.

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maybe every PR should be run through 2 other llms so they just remove the ads of competitors (or i guess you'll end up with all 3) /s

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