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

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 ...

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 "helped" with pull requests by unsolicitedly providing tips on commercial products. GitHub has since disabled ...

Straiker, the fastest-growing agentic security company, today launched Discover AI and expanded Defend AI to secure coding ...

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

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