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Copilot stops working on gender related subjects (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago by AlreadyDefederated@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Copilot purposely stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from Github, such as gender or sex. And if you prefix transactional data as trans_ Copilot will refuse to help you. ๐Ÿ˜‘

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[-] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 41 points 2 months ago

So you're telling me that I should just add the word trans to my code a shit ton to opt my code out of AI training?

[-] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

It will likely still be used for training, but it will spit it back censored

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