Dan LuuMar 30

Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

What will they think of next?

Show threadguenther
@danluu you'd think they'd have the technology to make this more sneaky and personalized than copying/pasting the same message to 11000 people
Mar 30 at 8:16amWeb
Show threadMarijke LuttekesMar 30

@guenther @danluu This is barely two weeks old, the sneaky will come eventually.

They're probably trying to see what they can get away with. Let's not accuse them of incompetence yet.

Show threadguentherMar 30

@mahryekuh or maybe the tokens are too expensive to waste them on ads

@danluu