GitHub Copilot Put Ads in 11,000 Pull Requests. Microsoft Called Them 'Tips.'

GitHub Copilot Is Putting Ads in Your Pull Requests. Microsoft Calls Them "Tips." GitHub Copilot includes ads in your PRs. Microsoft calls them 'tips.' A developer asked Copilot to fix a typo in a PR. Copilot fixed the typo, then quietly edited the PR description to include a promotion for itself and Raycast. Not a bug. Not a hallucination. A feature. 11,000 PRs. Same Promotional Text. Developers got curious. They spotted HTML comments labeled "START COPILOT CODING AGENT TIPS" hidden within thousands of PR descriptions on GitHub. 11,000+ pull requests contained the exact paragraph of promotional text. The gist of it was: "Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast." Raycast says they had no idea Copilot was doing this. Microsoft hasn't confirmed whether it's an intentional ad placement or just overzealous "product guidance." Your PR Description Is Your Space THE. PR. DESCRIPTION. SPACE. You own that. You'll wield it to clarify