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Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)

github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%…

What will they think of next?

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Oh, it's going to be ads everywhere. Ads in code comments. Ads in email summaries. Ads in meeting transcriptions. Ads in college admissions essays.

One of the marketing benefits of LLM use is that it turns you and your daily activities into a Trojan horse for ads.

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⁂ L. Rhodes
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Also: brand insertion. Maybe you ask ChatGPT to help plan a party, and it queries which grocery chain is paying a premium for brand insertion before placing the order for your cake. Or you ask about jogging, and it spontaneously mentions Saucony as an example of a running shoe brand. Or you mention "tissues" in an email, but in the summaries generated by Copilot for your recipients, tissue is replaced by Kleenex.
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