ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoMicrosoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHubwww.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1120arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHubwww.neowin.netExtremeDullard@piefed.social to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square8linkfedilinkfile-text
Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot’s coding agent.
minus-squareJacob_Mandarin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoTo play devils advocate. Maybe to write all the boilerplate of the pull request? Still seems quite wastefull. And yeah they are absolutely just offloading their thinking onto the machine.
To play devils advocate.
Maybe to write all the boilerplate of the pull request?
Still seems quite wastefull. And yeah they are absolutely just offloading their thinking onto the machine.