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GitHub Backs Down, Kills Copilot PR ‘Tips’ After Backlash

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Updated: Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager

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GitHub backs down, kills Copilot PR ‘tips’ after backlash

Updated: Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager

2 days ago

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OfficeChai

User Discovers That GitHub Copilot Edited An Ad Into Their PR, Company Responds

A routine typo fix turned into a corporate trust crisis for GitHub this week, after a developer discovered that GitHub Copilot had quietly... The post User Discovers That GitHub Copilot Edited An Ad Into Their PR, Company Responds appeared first on OfficeChai.

19 hours ago

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PC Perspective

Microsoft Copilot Was Injecting Ads Into GitHub Pulls Requests And Merges

There were more than a few developers flabbergasted to find out Copilot had injected advertisements into the descriptions of GitHub pull requests they made recently. Microsoft was injecting ads for Raycast,…

24 hours ago

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Techzine Europe

GitHub removes Copilot messages from pull requests

GitHub has rolled back a controversial feature in the Copilot application. This came after massive criticism from developers

1 day ago

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Heise

Github Hides Ads in Pull Requests – Developers Run Storm

GitHub Copilot has "helped" Pull Requests with references to commercial products. Meanwhile, GitHub has deactivated the behavior.

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Programmez!

Github: Ads in Github? Yes, but to Help Us!

Developers had identified in some PRs the insertion of adverts in the form of tips. Zach Manson specified that this ad had appeared following a Copilot query to fix a problem on a PR GitHub. And Copilot took the opportunity to insert, discreetly, a commercial for Raycast... It did not take long for the information to explode and stir up a part of the community. It took a few hours for Microsoft/GitHub to recede. The Register explains that the pu…

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