And now we’re entering the era of hyper-enshittification, where ads and monetization are seamlessly interwoven into every interaction with no possibility of escape.
Kinda reminds me of the Black Mirror episode Common People.
As a side note, I realize I have been making more and more comparisons to the show with our real life, and it’s not exactly filling me with confidence.
sometimes I feel like people should stop making dystopian themed media, because some people wouldn’t get the message and instead try to build it They see those stuff and thinks it’s cool instead of dystopian.
“Hey everyone, exciting news. We decided to build the Torment Nexus because everyone is so obsessed with the book and TV series ‘Please don’t build the Torment Nexus’!”
I don’t think they really need inspiration. At least such media brings up interesting question in public discourse.
It’s easy to avoid if you don’t use AI?
It’s easy to avoid if you don’t use AI?
By if you don't use AI do you mean if you don't accept pull requests on your projects and also don't read pull requests submitted to other projects you might care about?
The PRs in the post are made by Copilot. If Copilot made a PR against one of my repos (which I don’t think it would because I don’t use it) I would close it without looking.
Anyone can use copilot to open PRs under their own name on any repo which accepts PRs, so you can’t easily know copilot is involved without looking.
In the case of the first hit in the mastodon post’s linked search query, it looks like a human actually opened the PR last year and subsequently requested a review from copilot (as well as from two humans); after some back and forth nothing else happened until 3 days ago when copilot updated the issue to tell them: you need to pick a “Usage billed to” option in your Copilot settings.
And then, apparently, three minutes after they updated their billing information copilot pushed some more commits and helpfully edited the human’s original PR description to insert the advertisement.
(Obviously this is yet another reason to move off of github, but (1) that is much easier said than done for many projects, and (2) once it’s normalized on github, “coding assistants” will also be spamming in other venues soon enough if they aren’t already.)
I mean, you train your LLM on search engines that inject ads into everything you look up, it’s going to learn to inject ads into everything it vomits out too.
The spam message says:
Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast.
Isn’t this a Raycast ad, rather than a Copilot ad? This is probably a string injected by Raycast itself
Isn’t this a Raycast ad, rather than a Copilot ad?
It seems most likely that it is copilot inserting it, because the other screenshots in the post show similar ads for its integrations with various other services too
