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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

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

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

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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day 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.

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      Soon Microsoft will threaten to kill itself if we leave.

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        No, they’re more like the “If I can’t have you, no one can,” vibecode.

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        Promise?

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        I think we have to go through a long drawn out stage of Microslop pretending they can change before we get to that part.

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          We’re past that stage. They’re back to "It’s you!

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          https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/technology/p/659056/windows-boss-promises-to-heal-the-operating-system-s-wounds

          Right on schedule

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        “Do a backflip!”

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        Please threaten me with a good time

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