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Regardless of what Copilot suggested for "gender", it would've offended someone, and I think that's what Microsoft wants to avoid. Not even woke so much as it i
by ronsor 4y ago
Regardless of what Copilot suggested for "gender", it would've offended someone, and I think that's what Microsoft wants to avoid. Not even woke so much as it is trying to avoid potential controversies.
- eric4smith 4y agoYou would think they would just avoid adjusting this, right?
- mlyle 4y agoIf they don't "adjust" this, each user gets a random-ish result from all the code out there-- depending on mostly-unrelated context, it suggests a lot of genders or just 2. In turn, you can guarantee both groups of people end up upset.
- onionisafruit 4y agoWhat’s there to be upset by? Both groups know the other exists, and both groups know that the other group has written code that copilot trained on.
- mlyle 4y agoBoth groups will angrily complain that Copilot is suggesting the wrong thing. Right now both groups are trying to silence the other-- with school libraries, etc, in the crossfire being angrily denounced.
- wseqyrku 4y ago> Both groups will angrily complain that Copilot is suggesting the wrong thing. This is not normal, right? I mean, outside US.
- jacobsenscott 4y agoIt could just not suggest anything, but continue to suggest as usual for other parts of the file. I think that would offend the least number of people. The issue isn't that it isn't producing a suggestion, but that it stops producing a suggestion altogether for the rest of the file. I don't use copilot anymore because it just results in poor quality code and additional cognitive overhead (because you need to read and discard the shitty suggestions) as you type. It both slows you down and exhausts you. So you can really think of this as a feature. You'll write much better code as soon as copilot shuts down. It should do this more often.