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Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 2 days ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 41 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I really can't believe this got the green light. GitHub has, or perhaps had, the trust of most of the open source world. It was used by everybody. This is so fucking short-sighted, it's signing away your stock portfolio for a popsicle. Whatever couple bucks they get from this ad is worth absolutely nothing compared to the trust and good will they have flushed.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kinda hard to explain this concept to executives who have made their entire careers based off of dumb decisions like this. Problem is these execs never get fired or laid off, and instead get promoted upwards until all of Microsoft is doing the dumbest thing imaginable to their name. These people have never had consequence before, so are now destined to place those consequences on the company that's kept them woefully employed.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

I think this is true with a lot of companies. Microsoft is a good example. Whoever is responsible for the current state of Windows 11 should be turfed as rapidly and efficiently as possible both for the good of Microsoft and to send a message that this sort of thing is not wanted anymore.

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

They believe they are irreplacesble and as a single central point for development they are. They'll ride this until users move to other options effectively decentralizing source hosting again. Good. Burn it down MS. Burn it down as fast as you can.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago

Like everything a techbro behemoth acquires?

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Well yes, but have you also considered that line must go up?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think once you turn your product into "Enterprise" or whatever that means, then you can do whatever you want with the company. it doesn't matter you're going to make like 3 trillion dollars

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Websites like this are the reason I'm forced to use noscript on mobile

2 pages of this:

scripts loading ads

[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 163 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're in that stage where Microsoft knows that we're about to break up and instead of fixing itself it is leaning into that abusive boyfriend injecting themselves everywhere they can.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 88 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Soon Microsoft will threaten to kill itself if we leave.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 days ago

Promise?

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think we have to go through a long drawn out stage of Microslop pretending they can change before we get to that part.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago

We're past that stage. They're back to "It's you!

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago

No, they're more like the "If I can't have you, no one can," vibecode.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Please threaten me with a good time

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

"Do a backflip!"

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look at this BS. lol

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jesus fuck that is bad. That PR should/would get rejected regardless of the code content. Would also consider further action against the contributor for spamming my repo.

I'm actually amazed at Microsoft's audacity on this one. And that bar is already hard to clear for a company I have such a low opinion on.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wow thats actually more crazy than i though even Microslop would accomplish.

Their stock price is being hammered and for good reason...

Chat gpt will probably also add ads though. They were even open to sex bot chats as I understand it.

The Enshittify will not stop.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Come to Codeberg! We don't have AI slop built into the platform!

[–] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 29 points 2 days ago

GitHub has been in a downward spiral lately. Codeberg seems to be a better home for “small” open source. Large open-source organizations already use their forge.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] john_t@piefed.ee 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People using GitHub when Codeberg exists deserve nothing less.

[–] MrLLM@ani.social 17 points 2 days 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 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Recruiters care too much about green boxes sadly.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

Investors care too much about greenbacks, so there.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Codeberg has green boxes!

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

“Make sure you run

k*ll-all Firefox

Before trying again

This read me brought to you by ManGrates. There’s nothing manlier in grilling than ManGrates!”

[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

every Linux distribution build script will now add alias unaliveall="killall" to the /etc/profile

[–] ZombieChicken@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Should lean into things and just add "--and-children" to "killall" instead.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hoped for Refactor your body with ozempic style ads.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, or dick pills.

[–] krispyavuz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

My switch to codeberg pays off! GitHub has turned into junk real quick since the last months.

[–] blindpuskas@piefed.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft microsofting things...

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Microslop microslopping things...

ftfy

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah this problem goes way farther back than 2022.

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Teppa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

One more reason not to use Raycast

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

atp they should just have their LLMs put in code that relies on proprietary services and apps. Go the extra mile man

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not going to defend this garbage but is this really slop? Just seems like your average ad injection.

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So glad I never started using github

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I don’t think it’d be hard to leave if you had. You can export your issues to CSV. Everything else is just git.

[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

That’s really incredible as it was the defacto spot for git version controlled software since what feels like forever.