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GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Microsoft: ‘product tips’, not ‘ads’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMhSgFgwG80&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260331-github-copilot-puts-ads-into-pull-requests - podcast

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[–] diz@awful.systems 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I wouldn't be too surprised if they really don't, they're just advertising the advertising lol.

edit: Basically what if you spent a trillion dollars so that you could beam ads to people's bathroom mirrors. And better yet, ads reflected from water down in their toilets. Then in the interest of expediency you just take random ads and put them there for free, and your actual product, shares, sells better.