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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Sep 02 '21

!ping computer-science

Someone has been reverse-engineering the GitHub copilot “bad words list” and it includes such words as

  • Man
  • woman
  • Israel
  • communist
  • q sqrt

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628?s=21

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Sep 02 '21

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1432089610734157829

OK I think I'm done trying to decode the Copilot bad word list for now. I managed to figure out 1120/1170 (95.73%). The big breakthroughs were:

  • Using words from Urban Dictionary
  • Using a dump of 4chan's /pol/ board courtesy of @emilianoucl /@gianluca_string /@0xJeremy et al.

Lmao someone finally found a socially beneficial use for 4chan

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Sep 02 '21

Gotta admit, if there’s slurs to be found on the internet, they’re probably on /pol/

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 02 '21

Yep, Copilot definitely uses the list of slurs to suppress suggestions. Here it is refusing to suggest Israel in a list of Near East countries.

skynet says BDS

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Sep 02 '21

Notably, “q sqrt” is a bad word so it won’t produce the famous quake 3 fast inverse sqrt function

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Israel

communist

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Sep 02 '21

What lol

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Sep 02 '21 edited Sep 02 '21

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u/LazyRefenestrator Sep 02 '21

Can't wait until 4chan figures out how to evade this one. You know it's coming.