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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by stingraycharles on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:26PM (#27717691)
I suppose you’re referring to the AI Twitter bot that initially was very lovely and within a day 4chan had turned into a nazi. That was both very naive and hilarious.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/...

The big difference in this case, however, is that this AI was constantly learning based on user input, however, which I do not think is the case for Copilot.

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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by drusepth on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:48PM (#27718696)
Copilot is indeed constantly learning based on user input (as detailed here [1]) but it seems to be more high-level ("did the user accept or deny suggestion XYZ" and potentially what changes you make to suggestions after accepting) versus just dumping everything directly back into the model a la Tay.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/about-github-copil...

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