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Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#33

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.

Imagine that you had a co-worker who seemed totally normal 90% of the time... But about once a week, someone would bring up a topic that made them go full nazi or attempt to seduce their coworker. That's where we are with LLM-based generative text. It's not (just) about PR, it's about putting guardrails around the many many many circumstances the tech can do harm or just seem ignorant.

Imagine having a coworker like that.. But he's fully remote, and basically generated in real time by AI (appearance on video, voice etc). Maybe that's where we're going? :) then humans would be hired to occasionally pop in and pass some heavier scrutiny.

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

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It’s interesting how unsubstantiated allegations are getting so much attention, especially on a site with such high quality discussion.

Much more likely: the upvotes are because many people have frustration at this type of thing, and limited places to channel their frustration, so when they see a post like this, they upvote it to express their frustration. Or maybe that’s just me..

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Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s interesting how unsubstantiated allegations are getting so much attention, especially on a site with such high quality discussion.

Why? Are you unable to believe someone might think differently than you do, without it being explained away as "artificial voting"? Edit to add: Nice, they edited their comment. Previously it accused HN of having an artificial voting conspiracy. So that is what my comment was about. I will not edit my original comment above.

> It’s just interesting how unsubstantiated allegations are getting so much attention

Why make it about my opinions?

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Much more likely: the upvotes are because many people have frustration at this type of thing, and limited places to channel their frustration, so when they see a post like this, they upvote it to express their frustration. Or maybe that’s just me..

What type of thing? Asking for genuine curiosity.

This particular issue was hit by my friend previously on copilot.

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#38
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s interesting how unsubstantiated allegations are getting so much attention, especially on a site with such high quality discussion.

Why? Are you unable to believe someone might think differently than you do, without it being explained away as "artificial voting"? Edit to add: Nice, they edited their comment. Previously it accused HN of having an artificial voting conspiracy. So that is what my comment was about. I will not edit my original comment above.

They made an unsubstantiated allegation about an unsubstantiated allegation. The allegation was upvoted, the allegation about the allegation was downvoted. Surely you understand how silly that is?

Re: Part of my code makes Copilot crash

#40

Can we get a source for that? Because at the moment, it's just a comment made by a person on the internet with nothing backing it up...

I added "gender" (an IANA registered JWT claim) to my JWT payload schema and found Copilot will not provide any suggestions after that. Not on the same line, nor in the rest of the file. After removing the word gender entirely, it works again.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/jwt/jwt.xhtml

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