Microsoft's Copilot is injecting promotional text (ads for Raycast) into GitHub pull request descriptions, with over 11,000+ PRs and 1.5M+ affected across GitHub and GitLab. The broader context: AI inference costs are unsustainable, forcing companies to abandon subsidies and shift toward advertising as a revenue model.
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"Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"
Microsoft's Copilot injects ads into 1.5M+ GitHub PRs as unsustainable AI inference costs force platforms toward advertising-based revenue models.
Monday, March 30, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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