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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours ago

Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests

www.windowscentral.com

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Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests

www.windowscentral.com

Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours ago
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Copilot is now injecting ads into GitHub pull requests. It's a disaster.
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A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.
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    We’re in that stage where Microsoft knows that we’re about to break up and instead of fixing itself it is leaning into that abusive boyfriend injecting themselves everywhere they can.

    • justsomeguy@lemmy.world
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      Soon Microsoft will threaten to kill itself if we leave.

      • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Promise?

  • Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml
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    Still in the process of defenestrating myself.

  • blindpuskas@piefed.world
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    Microsoft microsofting things…

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      Microslop microslopping things…

      ftfy

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        Nah this problem goes way farther back than 2022.

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          So what you are saying is microsoft has been microslop for longer than a few years? I’d agree with that

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    watch they will put adds directly your project/code if you don’t pay…

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      People using GitHub when Codeberg exists deserve nothing less.

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