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Is this actually a real problem? Note it says "forced Copilot features" and > the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request fo

Is this actually a real problem? Note it says "forced Copilot features" and > the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories. but Microsoft doesn't automatically make these issues and PRs. Users have to trigger it. I mean, I do think you should be able to block the `copilot` user but I looked at this users repos and their most popular one has a total of 3 PRs with no Copilot ones. I also checked the Rust compiler which is obviously waaaay more popular and it appears to have had zero copilot PRs.

madeofpalk 1y ago
As a paid/commercial OSS maintainer, I haven't seen this from the public either. People occasionally submit low-effort PRs or issues, probably from Claude or ChatGPT or whatever, but I don't feel to bothered dealing with them. Of course, I'm fortunate enough to be paid for this. I think it's just an unfortunate fact now in 2025 that if you look after a text box online, you're going to have to deal with AI sludge in one way or another. If you don't want to do that, close the text box.
flykespice 1y ago
> Is this actually a real problem? I mean if Microsoft is "training" on your source code without consent (and potentially violating licenses) , that is a huge problem. > I also checked the Rust compiler which is obviously waaaay more popular and it appears to have had zero copilot PRs How do you asess whether some PR was made by an AI(like the user did)?
- IshKebab 1y ago
  > training Not what this is about. > How do you asess whether some PR was made by an AI(like the user did)? Searched for PRs authored by copilot or mentioning copilot.
  - flykespice 1y ago
    > Searched for PRs authored by copilot or mentioning copilot. So Github copilot forces your PR to tag them as coauthored by Copilot or users can be slick without mentioning it?
    - IshKebab 1y ago
      Read the issue: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749
    - Leynos 1y ago
      So the author is complaining about people using copilot, not about copilot submitting comments and PRs automatically without the repo owner's consent?
      - IshKebab 1y ago
        Yes. Copilot doesn't make automatic PRs and issues.
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madeofpalk 1y ago

As a paid/commercial OSS maintainer, I haven't seen this from the public either. People occasionally submit low-effort PRs or issues, probably from Claude or ChatGPT or whatever, but I don't feel to bothered dealing with them. Of course, I'm fortunate enough to be paid for this. I think it's just an unfortunate fact now in 2025 that if you look after a text box online, you're going to have to deal with AI sludge in one way or another. If you don't want to do that, close the text box.

flykespice 1y ago

> Is this actually a real problem? I mean if Microsoft is "training" on your source code without consent (and potentially violating licenses) , that is a huge problem. > I also checked the Rust compiler which is obviously waaaay more popular and it appears to have had zero copilot PRs How do you asess whether some PR was made by an AI(like the user did)?

IshKebab 1y ago
> training Not what this is about. > How do you asess whether some PR was made by an AI(like the user did)? Searched for PRs authored by copilot or mentioning copilot.
- flykespice 1y ago
  > Searched for PRs authored by copilot or mentioning copilot. So Github copilot forces your PR to tag them as coauthored by Copilot or users can be slick without mentioning it?
  - IshKebab 1y ago
    Read the issue: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749
  - Leynos 1y ago
    So the author is complaining about people using copilot, not about copilot submitting comments and PRs automatically without the repo owner's consent?
    - IshKebab 1y ago
      Yes. Copilot doesn't make automatic PRs and issues.
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