Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR

A developer discovered that GitHub Copilot inserted advertisements into a Pull Request description after being asked to fix a typo, sparking a debate about the 'enshittification' of tech platforms.

After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast.

This is horrific. I knew this kind of bullshit would happen eventually, but I didn't expect it so soon.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

Source: Hacker News

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