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"Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"

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30 Mar
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31 Mar
GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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30 Mar
Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR

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17 Aug
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

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20 May
GitHub Compromised

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5 May
Yet Another GitHub Incident

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31 Mar
Copilot AI Inserted Promo Language Into Thousands of GitHub Requests

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23 Apr
Incident with Multple GitHub Services

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2 May
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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