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. 😑
So you’re telling me that I should just add the word trans to my code a shit ton to opt my code out of AI training?
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?
This doesn’t appear to be true (anymore?).
Latest comments show current examples.
…this is from 2023?
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.
…3 weeks ago I am bumping this discussion just to add a voice - the hospital I work at is attempting to harmonize how old and new systems store things like sex and gender identity in an effort to model the social complexities of the topic in our database as health outcomes have been proven to be demonstrably better when doctor’s honors a patient’s preferred name and gender expression
This may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, under the current administration.
Yeah, or someone will die because lab result baselines that are dependent on sex get fucked up.
Politics need to stay the fuck out of medicine. Having people try and do a political dance around lab science is a recipe for disaster.
US horseshoe reality. The right is anti vaccines the left is dogmatically anti-biology in medicine. I feel bad for normal people living in the US. It’s like common sense and pragmatism was bred out of the gene pool.
the left is dogmatically anti-biology in medicine
lolwut
Accepting that gender is a social construct has literally nothing to do with biology. I promise you that even the most diehard Leftists still understand what biological sex means.
even the most diehard Leftists still understand what biological sex mean.
In two words: Binary; Immutable.
