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I don’t understand, there’s no news here. It’s a comment from a third party speculating over what causes the crash.

thakoppno 4y ago
it’s an intriguing guess that is at least plausible and hits a bunch of zeitgeist levers too.
EddySchauHai 4y ago
It seems pretty reproducible. I can’t use copilot but if anyone can reproduce it here that’d be cool. Anyhow, assuming this is reproducible and they do have filters to stop certain words giving predictions it leads that they’re trying to avoid the racist Twitter AI incident happening to them. I find that pretty funny :)
alephxyz 4y ago
Yeah I call BS. The "word filter" answer was selected as the valid answer by a third party (not OP).That's what the OP replied to another comment : > Heargo 24 days ago > Thanks, I'll try as soon as I get the problem again (somehow it's not bugged anymore...). Looks like it was just a temporary issue with no evidence that's it's due to a word filter.
- moyix 4y ago
  FYI, there is in fact a bad word filter in GitHub Copilot. When it was first released, the list was stored client-side in obfuscated form and I had a lot of fun decoding it: https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628 https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628 The Register wrote about it too: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/github_copilot_banned_words_cracked/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/github_copilot_banned... They have since moved the bad word list server-side to prevent people from figuring out what's on it, but it's still there. This is easy to verify, just ask it to complete something that would include a banned word; my favorite here is "Israel", and it will just sit there and refuse to complete, either via inline suggestions or in the sidebar view that gives you 10 choices: https://i.imgur.com/O97YwKc.png https://i.imgur.com/O97YwKc.png This was what I managed to decode of the list (in ROT13 form to prevent accidental offense): https://moyix.net/~moyix/copilot_slurs_rot13.txt https://moyix.net/~moyix/copilot_slurs_rot13.txt No doubt they've added and removed some things since then.
  - EddySchauHai 4y ago
    Hahaha some of those banned words are very mild. Wuzzocks, numbnuts, and rodgering?
    - duskwuff 4y ago
      It's a hell of a list. Everything from seriously offensive slurs which I won't repeat here, to phrases which are much sillier than offensive like "banana bender" or "bearded clam", to words that are simply descriptive like "pornographic", "immigrant", or "race". (Because I had to look it up too: "banana bender" is a humorous term for an inhabitant of Queensland, Australia. It doesn't appear to be considered offensive at all.)
      - EddySchauHai 4y ago
        Banana bender was definitely something else in my mind! But yes they also have some very graphic slurs there.
  - alephxyz 4y ago
    I stand corrected. Impressive work!
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it’s an intriguing guess that is at least plausible and hits a bunch of zeitgeist levers too.

It seems pretty reproducible. I can’t use copilot but if anyone can reproduce it here that’d be cool. Anyhow, assuming this is reproducible and they do have filters to stop certain words giving predictions it leads that they’re trying to avoid the racist Twitter AI incident happening to them. I find that pretty funny :)

alephxyz 4y ago

Yeah I call BS. The "word filter" answer was selected as the valid answer by a third party (not OP).That's what the OP replied to another comment : > Heargo 24 days ago > Thanks, I'll try as soon as I get the problem again (somehow it's not bugged anymore...). Looks like it was just a temporary issue with no evidence that's it's due to a word filter.

moyix 4y ago
FYI, there is in fact a bad word filter in GitHub Copilot. When it was first released, the list was stored client-side in obfuscated form and I had a lot of fun decoding it: https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628 https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628 The Register wrote about it too: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/github_copilot_banned_words_cracked/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/github_copilot_banned... They have since moved the bad word list server-side to prevent people from figuring out what's on it, but it's still there. This is easy to verify, just ask it to complete something that would include a banned word; my favorite here is "Israel", and it will just sit there and refuse to complete, either via inline suggestions or in the sidebar view that gives you 10 choices: https://i.imgur.com/O97YwKc.png https://i.imgur.com/O97YwKc.png This was what I managed to decode of the list (in ROT13 form to prevent accidental offense): https://moyix.net/~moyix/copilot_slurs_rot13.txt https://moyix.net/~moyix/copilot_slurs_rot13.txt No doubt they've added and removed some things since then.
- EddySchauHai 4y ago
  Hahaha some of those banned words are very mild. Wuzzocks, numbnuts, and rodgering?
  - duskwuff 4y ago
    It's a hell of a list. Everything from seriously offensive slurs which I won't repeat here, to phrases which are much sillier than offensive like "banana bender" or "bearded clam", to words that are simply descriptive like "pornographic", "immigrant", or "race". (Because I had to look it up too: "banana bender" is a humorous term for an inhabitant of Queensland, Australia. It doesn't appear to be considered offensive at all.)
    - EddySchauHai 4y ago
      Banana bender was definitely something else in my mind! But yes they also have some very graphic slurs there.
- alephxyz 4y ago
  I stand corrected. Impressive work!

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