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Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

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Content filters on ML feel so silly. I assume the goal is to avoid bad press? Because the... "attack" would be someone generating offensive material, which they could just write themselves, not to mention I have serious doubts that any filter is going to be a serious barrier.

For images/ video I can see merit, ex: using that nudity inference project on images of children, but text seems particularly pointless.

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#6

Content filters on ML feel so silly. I assume the goal is to avoid bad press? Because the... "attack" would be someone generating offensive material, which they could just write themselves, not to mention I have serious doubts that any filter is going to be a serious barrier. For images/ video I can see merit, ex: using that nudity inference project on images of children, but text seems particularly pointless.

I guess they’re trying to avoid the twitter AI bit incident.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#7
I encountered this when writing some scripts for Latin-language text processing (which dealt with grammatical gender). Thankfully the Latin-native term 'genus' passed the Copilot smell-test and I could continue with my work. I found it pretty amusing.

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#9

Content filters on ML feel so silly. I assume the goal is to avoid bad press? Because the... "attack" would be someone generating offensive material, which they could just write themselves, not to mention I have serious doubts that any filter is going to be a serious barrier. For images/ video I can see merit, ex: using that nudity inference project on images of children, but text seems particularly pointless.

The only reasonable content filters on these sort of models would be something that could have legal repercussions.

This is absolutely silly. Solid work GitHub team!

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