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Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by iso1631 »

isjciwjdieh wrote: post #663
iso1631 wrote: post #501

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When apple puts an advert for an apple show in front of for all mankind, that's an advert. Maybe I put up with it and it just adds to my subconscious seething, or maybe I get the episode elsewhere because if I watch on jellyfin I don't have the advert. Of course that then harms the show as my viewing isn't counted, but they've cancelled it anyway so perhaps it doesn't really matter. If it isn't an advert, then at ver…

What? For All Mankind wasn’t cancelled. Season 5 is coming out now with season 6 already confirmed coming—which, granted, will be its last, but that’s not a cancellation in any sense of the word.

"not renewed" or "cancelled" is the same thing

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by fodkodrasz »

polski-g wrote: post #631
transcriptase wrote: post #273

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Yeah but at least a dozen Microsoft employees went on a seemingly scripted blitz on X about how they’re ready to start listening to feedback and… * checks notes * Only have copilot shoehorned into most things instead of everything. And some shit about windows developers which isn’t exactly going to fix the glaring issues with the OS itself.

They literally broke 40yr standard keyboard layouts on laptops by replacing right alt buttons with their bullshit AI button. Are they going to fix hardware they've already sold? On every OEM?

PowerToys for the rescue!

I almost commented that you can just configure in the settings, but actually the available options don't include Alt. On my Hungarian layout Thinkpad T-14 it replaced the context menu key, not the right-alt, which is luckily the AltGraph key that has a substantial role in Hungarian input method, it cannot be omitted.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by account42 »

circuit10 wrote: post #474
NateEag wrote: post #335

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Of course they already do this. The ToS ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-indivi... ) says explicitly: > Copilot may include both automated and manual (human) processing of data. You shouldn’t share any information with Copilot that you don’t want us to review. so they're reserving the right to process whatever it looks at. You're sending them your codebase already, as part of the prompt for gen…

Also for some reason that site hijacks your scrolling and tries to "smooth" it, which just makes it feel more unresponsive as most browsers already have smooth scrolling? Looks like they're using this: https://github.com/gblazex/smoothscroll-for-websites I know it's a bit off topic but I'm just confused as to why that would be on there...

Web developers just can't help themselves from reinventing browser functionality, badly.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by wswope »

dang wrote: post #671
wswope wrote: post #627

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It’s not about bigco at all in my eyes. At the end of the day, if you want intellectual curiosity and openness, bad-faith dishonesty needs to be weeded out; thought-provoking and honest conversation should be promoted, regardless of where the contributor is employed. The problem isn’t working for Microsoft. The problem is dishonesty. You’re treating the root comment with kid gloves because it’s from a Microsoft emplo…

Internet commenters massively over-attribute "bad-faith dishonesty" to others while denying it in themselves. There's enough bad faith to go around in all of us. It's obvious that the dominant variable in the GP was that he was replying from within $BigCo. Your comment starts out by denying that and ends by confirming it. I'm not asking for special treatment for anyone, but the opposite: I don't anyone on HN to be th…

Internet or not, I post under my real name on here, and I fully stand by my words. Anything I say on here, I’m 100% willing to say to someone’s face. We can link up for coffee or a beer next time I’m in CA if you’d like, and I’ll prove it.

The root comment is an aggressive affront to the audience’s collective intelligence. You’re in full “rules for thee; not for me” territory, and undermining your own site guidelines if you wanna let the root comment stand unchecked but go after the rightful callouts, in my book.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by Forgeties79 »

yarn_ wrote: post #502
Forgeties79 wrote: post #466

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According to you it’s all false. I don’t agree, and it certainly shouldn’t just be taken as a given. For instance, I would want any AI generated video showing real people to have a disclaimer. Same way we have disclaimers when tv ads note if the people are actors or not with testimonials and the like. That is not only not false, but is actually a useful signal that helps present overly deceptive practices.

I don't see what the "deceptive practices" would be though - you can just look at the code being submitted, there isn't really the same background truth involved as with "did the thing in this video actually happen?" "do these commercial people actually think this?" If I have a block of human code and an identical block of llm code then whats the difference? Especially given that in reality it is trivial to obfuscate…

I’m not an AI hater and I still think it should be disclosed. That’s how it should be approached.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by trueno »

timrogers wrote: post #250

Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pull requests created by or touched by Copilot, so you won't see this happen again for future PRs. We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent. The goal was to help developers learn new ways to use the agent in their workflow. But hearing the feedback here, and on reflection, this was the wrong judgement call. W…

mate nobody wants unwarranted tips. have you guys lost your mind

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by stronglikedan »

neya wrote: post #182

I feel like there is an even more important crisis that is being masked over here: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-25-updates-to-our-priv... New Section J — AI features, training, and your data: We’ve added a dedicated section that brings all AI-related terms together in one place. Unless you opt out, you grant GitHub and our affiliates a license to collect and use your inputs (e.g., prompts and code context) a…

> Unless you opt out

(whether or not you should have to opt in or out is a different topic)

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by davidgerard »

NateEag wrote: post #335
neya wrote: post #225

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Imagine just having the copilot extension installed will be an excuse at some point for them to steal our code to train their AI models. Not sure if they already do this.

Of course they already do this. The ToS ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-indivi... ) says explicitly: > Copilot may include both automated and manual (human) processing of data. You shouldn’t share any information with Copilot that you don’t want us to review. so they're reserving the right to process whatever it looks at. You're sending them your codebase already, as part of the prompt for gen…

That's the TOS for the broader Microsoft Copilot, not for the GitHub one, which has its own TOSes (depending whether your last renewal was before or after March 5) that don't include the "entertainment" wording.

But one to file away!

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