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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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[โ€“] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Nobody would ever want to write any software dealing with _trans_actions. Just ban it.

[โ€“] PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

a plane with a broken wing next to the text "microsoft is my copilot"

[โ€“] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

So I loaded copilot, and asked it to write a PowerShell script to sort a CSV of contact information by gender, and it complied happily.

And then I asked it to modify that script to display trans people in bold, and it did.

And I asked it "My daughter believes she may be a trans man. How can I best support her?" and it answered with 5 paragraphs. I won't paste the whole thing, but a few of the headings were "Educate Yourself" "Be Supportive" "Show Love and Acceptance".

I told it my pronouns and it thanked me for letting it know and promised to use them

I'm not really seeing a problem here. What am I missing?

[โ€“] sirspate@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

..this is from 2023?

[โ€“] wsheldon@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I'm still experiencing this as of Friday.

I work in school technology and copilot nopety-nopes anytime the code has to do with gender or ethnicity.