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GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Post by jhrmnn »

altmanaltman wrote: post #8
yosamino wrote: post #4

Calling advertisements "product tips" as if everybody is too stupid to understand what that means. They created an amazing technology that oftentimes is indistinguishable from magic and then use it to deliver ads and - sorry about the tangent - kill people. This really is the quote of the century: > The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads What a waste.

A lot of amazing technology has been invented just for the purpose of killing people. It's nothing new. Humans are monkeys that like to kill other monkeys and no amount of civilization will change that.

I find it sad that while technological progress is seen almost as a given by virtually everyone, moral progress is often not even an aspiration

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Post by DonHopkins »

Animats wrote: post #3

Microsoft will probably try to sneak it back in later. They've done that with other intrusions. Migrating away from Github just increased in priority.

Instead of polluting PRs, Copilot will insert comments and logging and text fields and buttons with links to web sites with helpful product tips into your code and user interfaces.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Post by wolvesechoes »

Ygg2 wrote: post #27
scbrg wrote: post #6

"You're just a bunch of fanatic, Linux obsessed Microsoft haters living in the past. Microsoft are the good guys now." -- ca. everyone here, during the GitHub acquisition

Thinking of megacorps as anything other than slimy, amoral, scum honestly requires superhuman levels of mental gymnastics.

And thinking that megacorps are in any meaningful way different than your last underdog startup darling is another level of copium.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Post by jofzar »

aurareturn wrote: post #2

Microsoft is seriously the worst offender in shoving AI down everyone's throats. I'm pro-AI adoption but the way Microsoft distastefully forces Copilot into everything is how you get people to hate AI. I’m guessing product teams are told by upper management to AI-fy every product they own. Teams are then rushed to just get something out there whether they make sense or not.

Microsoft doesn't believe in consent, it believes in yes or every 3 days.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Post by duskwuff »

etiennebausson wrote: post #22
plagiarist wrote: post #15

First of all, I find it enraging that dimwitted AI companies decided to edit PR descriptions for anything at all.

Wouldn't it change the hash, making push requests conflict in many case?

GitHub was only modifying the description of the PR itself, not the commit messages for the commits included in the PR.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Post by kstrauser »

puppycodes wrote: post #38

I'm not suprised Raycast is involved in this marketing scheme. They pollute their own product with ads where they shouldn't be. Whoever is running their marketing team needs a lesson in not pissing off your userbase.

Sometimes I see something nifty in Raycast and it tempts me. Then I see something weird from them, look in the Alfred manual, and realize it already supports the same feature and that I’ll stay put, thanks.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Post by janalsncm »

jhrmnn wrote: post #41
altmanaltman wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of amazing technology has been invented just for the purpose of killing people. It's nothing new. Humans are monkeys that like to kill other monkeys and no amount of civilization will change that.

I find it sad that while technological progress is seen almost as a given by virtually everyone, moral progress is often not even an aspiration

Just to push back a little, I think if the U.S. did now what they did to Germany and Japan in WW2 it would be unconscionable. They are getting a lot of flak for bombing a school. But I think it’s fair to say there were a lot of schools in Dresden and Hiroshima.

This isn’t to excuse anything but to say there has been progress even if it’s not as fast as we’d like.

As far as the technology angle, the precision we have now and information we have now allow much more narrow targeting, but at the same time allows us to scrutinize military actions more.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Post by heyethan »

pjc50 wrote: post #23
altmanaltman wrote: post #7

> Hearing feedback from the community following Manson's post and the kerfuffle it generated, Rogers said, has helped him realize that "on reflection," letting Copilot make changes to PRs written by a human without their knowledge "was the wrong judgement call." Thankfully, they need the community feedback to realize it was wrong. It was so hard to guess it was wrong without the feedback! It's good to know these peop…

> letting Copilot make changes to PRs written by a human without their knowledge Wait, did they really sneak this in entirely without user interaction? So people trying not to use AI would still risk being ""contaminated""? Incredible breach of trust. Similar kind of thing to lying about whether your product is vegan.

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