'This is horrific': GitHub kills Copilot pull-request ads after user backlash

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• More than 11,000 GitHub pull requests had ads inserted by Copilot
• Developers were unhappy about the way they were being implemented
• GitHub has confirmed this was a mistake, and it has no plans to advertise like this

GitHub has reversed its decision to insert ads for its AI tools into Copilot-generated and edited pull requests after developer backlash.

Australian developer Zach Manson explained how after a colleague used Copilot to correct a typo in a pull request, the Microsoft-owned platform had also inserted promotional messages for but just its own tools, but also third parties like Recast.

Manson was just one of many developers complaining about this perceived advertising – more than 11,000 pull requests contained similar Copilot-inserted ads without user awareness or ...