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I encountered this some time ago because I was working with grammatical gender. Unlike many of these comments, though, I do not take exception to it. Bias in ML

I encountered this some time ago because I was working with grammatical gender. Unlike many of these comments, though, I do not take exception to it. Bias in ML is well established, and it's okay if, when we don't have solutions, we just disable it. If your autocomplete was capable of spitting out suggestions that made you feel isolated or kept poking you in the eye about aspects of your identity, you might feel a bit better about the creators having thought about that and taken steps to avoid it happening.

nonethewiser 4y ago
Banana699 4y ago
"Reducing Bias" is a really strange way to put it, considering that bias usually means delibeaterly ignoring or contradicting aspects of reality/data (the classic example in ML textbooks is fitting a straight line to non-linear data), which is what Copilot is quite literally doing here. Gender is, in actual material fact, binary, and extremely strongly correlated with sex. Building a crimestop into an ML model is just teaching the machine human biases and delusions.