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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests

www.windowscentral.com

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Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests

www.windowscentral.com

Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Copilot is now injecting ads into GitHub pull requests. It's a disaster.
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A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.
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    Microsoft microsofting things…

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      Microslop microslopping things…

      ftfy

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        Nah this problem goes way farther back than 2022.

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          So what you are saying is microsoft has been microslop for longer than a few years? I’d agree with that

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            The Windows 8 start menu was candy crush and a ton of ads, and that was over a decade ago.

            It reminded me back then of a 50$ chinese phone I got off Alibaba.

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