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  anton-g
  Well, you are not alone: https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...
• starkeeper
  This is off the hook negligence and abuse they are training ads in on purpose now and think it's cool. We are doomed until it is all open source and only open source.
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  khvirabyan
  Just thinking, could it be that your coworker used Raycast to spin up a codex to review and fix the typo on the PR? And that comment was added by Raycast?
• ZeroGravitas
  Claude will add itself as a contributor to a PR, which I consider an ad.
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  WD-42
  Why is copilot doing this? If they wanted to show ads couldn’t they… just show ads? Or is GitHub such a house of cards at this point that editing pr descriptions is the only way without risking another 9 of downtime?
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  post_below
  Assuming this isn't a hoax, this seems like a huge, probably unintentional, mistake by MS.If they genuinely implemented something like this, whatever they made from new customers via ads couldn't possibly make up for the loss of good faith with developers and businesses.I suppose if it's real we'll see more reports soon, and maybe a mea culpa.
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  nialse
  Microsoft injecting permanent ads in PRs? Has this been independently confirmed?Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.
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  ex-aws-dude
  How long before the LLM makes sponsored decisions in the actual implementation?"It looks like the user wants to add a database, I've gone ahead and implemented the database using today's sponsor: MongoDB"
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  pinkmuffinere
  I think they want the free advertisement, like Apple with its “sent from iPhone” addendums. But “sent from iPhone” is sometimes useful, and significantly shorter. If they just left it at “edited with copilot” I think it would be tolerable
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  simonw
  Which Copilot was this? There are a bunch of different products that share that name now.
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  napo
  I wonder if 1) the PR was created using Raycast and this is the model signing its PR, or 2) if there was some prompt injection done at some point.Either of these options would still be bad, but here the author suggests that it's just copilot that now just injects ads in its output.
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  pabrams
  Why are you "summoning copilot" to correct a typo?
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  bryanhogan
  Whatever the reason for the inclusion was here, the general problem is much bigger. People / companies / products can influence the direction of AI answers to put them in a better light and to be recommended more often. This isn't limited to just products even.
• gherkinnn
  Obnoxious ads in LLM output was my only 2026 prediction. But I expected OpenAI to get there first and wasn't sure whether the AI companies would first add traditional ad boxes or go straight for blighted responses.
• rmnclmnt
  Isn’t this more of a Raycast issue (apparently an agentic ai service) instead of GH Copilot itself?
• turtleyacht
  Do you drive by a billboard that reads Does advertising work? Just did! Raycast is an application launcher thing:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raycast_(software)Ray casting, however, is different:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting
• upmostly
  Isn't this the same as"Sent from my iPhone"?
• pants2
  Was Raycast bought by GitHub or something? Why would it be advertising for Raycast?Brought to you by Wendy's.
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  raincole
  Is Raycast even a product of Microsoft? If not, are we witnessing the first large scale prompt injection abuse?
• oakpond
  I notice this kind of "Sent from iPhone"-type spam with other AI tools too. It's awful.
• logicallee
  Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem
• isoprophlex
  Satya "please don't say slop" Nadella eat your heart out. Magnificent amounts of value are truly being added by this tech.I'll add: it doesnt really matter if this was the integration dumbly appending a message or the llm inserting the ad. Judging by the response to this submission, sneaky ad slop is now firmly inside the overton window, so for MS it doesn't make sense NOT to do it.
• hexasquid
  I'm so tired of what initially looks like a perfect normal communication between two people, only to find that some third party has inserted itself like a parasite to exploit and extract human attention. That's why I use our sponsor, nord vpn ...
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  Surac
  as a non native speaker here please explain the meaning of PR to me.
• idkwhatimdoing2
  Its like microsoft wants to be google, except its very intrusive.time is money, save both. try ramp.
• charcircuit
  This looks like an ad for only Raycast which does not appear to be affiliated with Microsoft or GitHub at all so blaming Copilot or GitHub here is not justified.Edit: The link in the promotion goes to https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agent...Which does show that this is affiliated with GitHub unlike what I thought. There are no mentions of this string in a code repository on GitHub (including the Raycast copilot extention).
• hsbauauvhabzb
  It was only a matter of time.Sent by my iPhone using tapatalk
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  martianlantern
  Why are they doing this?
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  daemin
  Using a LLM to fix a spelling mistake is retardedly lazy.Presumably they used a free version of the LLM, therefore it is completely understandable that it inserted a snippet of text advertising its use into the output. I mean using a free email provider also adds a line of text to the end of every email advertising the service by default - "Sent from iPhone" etc.
• vcryan
  I'm not a fan of LLM's injecting themselves into PR/commit content. If you use multiple models, basically whichever one is operating git gets all the credit. But, even if you wrote all the code yourself, and just submitted the PR with Claude Code (or whatever) it would attempt to take credit for the changes.I currently have rules in all of my skill files forbidding models from advertising themselves or taking credit.
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  MattGaiser
  Post the trajectory if this is real.
• iomer
  crappy much. wow.
• anshumankmr
  One more step closer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM1rSObk4c
• dinakernel
  Seriously? Dont they want their system to succeed? I cant think of a better way of alienating the target customer than this.
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  with
  Everyone is doing this now. Granted, on Codex / Claude Code, you can disable it, it’s not the default to have it disabled. For some reason on Cursor, they keep shoving the “Made with Cursor” into my PR description despite me disabling attribution, which looks really stupid on a work PR.I’m so tired of all this BS. Why did this become normal? and how do we not read this as cheap advertising?
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  GN0515
  But... why?
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• ookblah
  maybe every PR should be run through 2 other llms so they just remove the ads of competitors (or i guess you'll end up with all 3) /s