GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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

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@mttaggart What are they doing now that we're not paying attention to?

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Hearing feedback from the community following Manson's post and the kerfuffle it generated, Rogers said, has helped him realize that "on reflection," letting Copilot make changes to PRs written by a human without their knowledge "was the wrong judgement call."

@tootbrute @drwho @mttaggart I promise that I am not trying to be dramatic when I ask “why did this need reflection to realize and why isn’t Rogers being fired for the fact that it did?”
@griotspeak @tootbrute @mttaggart A lot of people are just not capable of doing so. We're conditioned to not even know about it from a young age, culturally.

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Because his employer earned money from those ads.

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@dzwiedziu @griotspeak @tootbrute @drwho @mttaggart I'd say they have to quickly push the enshittification level to 11 so that they may hope it's going to be profitable one day and they are not shoving so many B$ into the bubble for nothing.
They might lose most of their users in the process, but being useful to people never was the intention anyway.
@zerkman @dzwiedziu @griotspeak @tootbrute @drwho @mttaggart They indeed have to. Even the markets don't play ball anymore, all "AI" companies are constantly losing value for many weeks now while still not being able to show any profit from the whole AI ventures. The hype among investors is fading, if they don't massively increase revenue fast the bubble with pop.
(At least that's my interpretation of the situation)