Microsoft Copilot Was Injecting Ads Into GitHub Pulls Requests And Merges

More Microslop After They Promised To Tone It Down

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, Slack, Teams, and a variety of other IDEs into the descriptions with absolutely no notification to the person making the pull request or merges.  As you might expect this enraged a lot of developers; something that Microsoft somehow failed to see coming.

The problem is not so much the advertisement, it’s the fact you obviously can’t trust Microsoft not to modify anything you put onto GitHub without warning.  If they are convinced that they have the right to add random text to pull requests and merges, who is to say that they won’t start adding things to your code, or being even more blatant in stealing it for their own use.  

Microsoft quickly reversed course, but they never should have done this in the first place and it definitely puts the lie to their claim they will stop shoving Copilot into everything.