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Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 41 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

watch they will put adds directly your project/code if you don't pay..

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

They’ll start making you censor READMEs to make advertisers happy.

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[–] john_t@piefed.ee 34 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

People using GitHub when Codeberg exists deserve nothing less.

[–] MrLLM@ani.social 6 points 3 hours ago

You use GitHub because you don’t know better

I use GitHub because I wanna poison AI with shitty code

We are not the same

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Recruiters care too much about green boxes sadly.