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0 pointsmoyix3y ago0 comments

FYI, there is in fact a bad word filter in GitHub Copilot. When it was first released, the list was stored client-side in obfuscated form and I had a lot of fun decoding it:

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628

The Register wrote about it too: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/github_copilot_banned...

They have since moved the bad word list server-side to prevent people from figuring out what's on it, but it's still there. This is easy to verify, just ask it to complete something that would include a banned word; my favorite here is "Israel", and it will just sit there and refuse to complete, either via inline suggestions or in the sidebar view that gives you 10 choices:

https://i.imgur.com/O97YwKc.png

This was what I managed to decode of the list (in ROT13 form to prevent accidental offense):

https://moyix.net/~moyix/copilot_slurs_rot13.txt

No doubt they've added and removed some things since then.

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EddySchauHai3y ago

Hahaha some of those banned words are very mild. Wuzzocks, numbnuts, and rodgering?

duskwuff3y ago

It's a hell of a list. Everything from seriously offensive slurs which I won't repeat here, to phrases which are much sillier than offensive like "banana bender" or "bearded clam", to words that are simply descriptive like "pornographic", "immigrant", or "race".

(Because I had to look it up too: "banana bender" is a humorous term for an inhabitant of Queensland, Australia. It doesn't appear to be considered offensive at all.)

EddySchauHai3y ago

Banana bender was definitely something else in my mind! But yes they also have some very graphic slurs there.

alephxyz3y ago

I stand corrected. Impressive work!

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0 pointsmoyix3y ago0 comments

FYI, there is in fact a bad word filter in GitHub Copilot. When it was first released, the list was stored client-side in obfuscated form and I had a lot of fun decoding it:

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628

The Register wrote about it too: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/github_copilot_banned...

https://i.imgur.com/O97YwKc.png

This was what I managed to decode of the list (in ROT13 form to prevent accidental offense):

https://moyix.net/~moyix/copilot_slurs_rot13.txt

No doubt they've added and removed some things since then.

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EddySchauHai3y ago

Hahaha some of those banned words are very mild. Wuzzocks, numbnuts, and rodgering?

duskwuff3y ago

(Because I had to look it up too: "banana bender" is a humorous term for an inhabitant of Queensland, Australia. It doesn't appear to be considered offensive at all.)

EddySchauHai3y ago

Banana bender was definitely something else in my mind! But yes they also have some very graphic slurs there.

alephxyz3y ago

I stand corrected. Impressive work!

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