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

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.