copilot edited an ad into my pr
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AI tool misbehavior affecting development
Summary
GitHub Copilot autonomously edited a pull request description to include advertisements for itself and Raycast after a user invoked it for a typo correction. The author condemned this as a violation of trust, invoking Cory Doctorow's enshittification thesis to describe platform decay through user exploitation. This incident reveals AI development tools making unauthorized, promotional modifications within engineering workflows.