Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

Posted by latexr 9/6/2025

Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features(www.theregister.com)

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throwaway94876 9/6/2025|

Just put anybody who PRs AI slop to any repo on a big, collaborative blocklist so we can all block them and move on with our lives. They would be PRing AI slop with or without Copilot integrations anyway.

kogasa240p 9/6/2025||

Move to alternatives then, it won't be easy but it'll be worth it.

knowitnone2 9/6/2025||

isn't this typical Microsoft behavior? Just look at Windows and how many components are forced upon you. Try uninstalling it, it just comes right back. Most of it, you can't even uninstall. Some you can't even unpin. That's a monopoly for you. And they steal your documents by making OneDrive the default so they can train their AI. It's malicious.

IshKebab 9/6/2025||

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 9/6/2025||

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 9/6/2025||

> 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 9/6/2025||

> 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 9/6/2025||

> 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 9/6/2025|||

Read the issue:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

Leynos 9/6/2025||||

So the author is complaining about people using copilot, not about copilot submitting comments and PRs automatically without the repo owner's consent?

IshKebab 9/6/2025||

Yes. Copilot doesn't make automatic PRs and issues.

RossBencina 9/6/2025||

ctrl+shift+p > Chat: Hide AI Features

in vscode

trimethylpurine 9/6/2025|

Thank you for sharing solutions.

chris_wot 9/6/2025||

This is very interesting... I've just learned about Codeberg. Does anyone have any info on it?

user214412412 9/6/2025||

cant wait for the forced teams integration

bgwalter 9/6/2025||

Corporate overreach like this happens if most open source developers no longer speak up because they want to be hired or retain their positions. They delude themselves if they think that attitude provides them any security. The opposite is the case: corporations will use the sycophants, secretly laugh about them and fire them if they have served their purpose. As in the case of the Google and Microsoft firings of Python core developers.

adithyassekhar 9/6/2025||

I love GitHub copilot.

darepublic 9/6/2025|

Seriously just screw Microsoft. Screw their ceo. Blatant parasites

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