A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.

Developers were (understandably) furious with Copilot and other ads appearing in their pull requests – now GitHub has ...

Microsoft has denied the GitHub Copilot ad reports and told Windows Latest that it does not plan to show ads on GitHub.

"Quickly spin up Copilot coding agents from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast," the note said, ...

GitHub Copilot has injected promotional messages into over 1.5 million pull requests, prompting GitHub to disable the feature ...

GitHub describes this training data as inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context, but the fine print goes into ...

Cursor AI vs GitHub Copilot comparison: features, use cases, pros, and which AI coding assistant is best for developers in ...

Starting on April 24th, all GitHub Copilot interaction data including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train GitHub's AI ...

GitHub reports that, starting April 24, it will be changing how it uses data for its AI assistant Copilot. Interaction data ...

Following backlash from developers, GitHub has removed Copilot's ability to stick ads - what it calls "tips" - into any pull request that invokes its name.  Australian developer Zach Manson noted on ...

It was inevitable. After three years in the ad-free "honeymoon" phase, ads are slowly creeping into generative AI products, including Copilot.