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There is some irony in Copilot refusing to work on code that contains the prefix "trans" when the whole LLM tech itself is based on "transformers"...
by xg15 2y ago
There is some irony in Copilot refusing to work on code that contains the prefix "trans" when the whole LLM tech itself is based on "transformers"...
- ben_w 2y agoThe way the prefix is shorthand for the whole, and the issues that arise as a result, remind me of all the times this happened with other words. • https://www.haaretz.com/2010-01-20/ty-article/news-site-calls-runner-homosexual-because-his-name-is-gay/0000017f-e697-dc7e-adff-f6bfda6f0000 https://www.haaretz.com/2010-01-20/ty-article/news-site-call... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem • My dad had a story about an all-staff memo about an "African-American tie event". • I had warnings from Apple about using "Knopf" in a description, which can only have come from the English word "knob" being literally (and inappropriately) translated into German from an English-language bad word filter, as "Knopf" isn't at all rude in German. But not this: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/31343/did-a-survey-of-conservative-christians-show-85-would-disown-their-child-if-the https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/31343/did-a-sur...