▲ 36 ▼ GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests (pivot-to-ai.com) submitted 7 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments Microsoft: ‘product tips’, not ‘ads’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMhSgFgwG80&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260331-github-copilot-puts-ads-into-pull-requests - podcast time: 5 min 46 sec
[–] dgerard@awful.systems [S] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children) So MS claims, that they don't have ad deals for this! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago What if, because llms are trained on the internet, this is just something which will eventually be included. Statistically it needs more ads. permalink fedilink source parent [–] diz@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago* I wouldn't be too surprised if they really don't, they're just advertising the advertising lol. edit: Basically what if you spent a trillion dollars so that you could beam ads to people's bathroom mirrors. And better yet, ads reflected from water down in their toilets. Then in the interest of expediency you just take random ads and put them there for free, and your actual product, shares, sells better. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago What if, because llms are trained on the internet, this is just something which will eventually be included. Statistically it needs more ads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] diz@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago* I wouldn't be too surprised if they really don't, they're just advertising the advertising lol. edit: Basically what if you spent a trillion dollars so that you could beam ads to people's bathroom mirrors. And better yet, ads reflected from water down in their toilets. Then in the interest of expediency you just take random ads and put them there for free, and your actual product, shares, sells better. permalink fedilink source parent