"I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think this is being driven by regulation (though perhaps it's motivated by a desire to avoid getting regulated).
"There is definitely a growing awareness that abuse is something you need to consider when deploying a new technology," said Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, in an email to The Register. "Due to the pre-release nature of the underlying technology, GitHub Copilot may sometimes produce undesired outputs, including biased, discriminatory, abusive, or offensive outputs." "The technical preview includes filters to block offensive words and avoid synthesizing suggestions in sensitive contexts," the company explains on its website.
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GitHub is aware that its clever software could offend, having perhaps absorbed parent company Microsoft's chagrin at seeing its Tay chatbot manipulated to parrot hate speech. No one wants to end up as the subject of the next viral thread about AI gone awry
To date, the results have been interesting but not quite compelling – the code produced has been simplistic and insecure, though the project is still being improved.
GitHub's Copilot comes with a coded list of 1,170 words to prevent the AI programming assistant from responding to input, or generating output, with offensive terms, while also keeping users safe from words like "Israel," "Palestine," "communist," "liberal," and "socialist," according to new research.Ĭopilot was released as a limited technical preview in July in the hope it can serve as a more sophisticated version of source-code autocomplete, drawing on an OpenAI neural network called Codex to turn text prompts into functioning code and make suggestions based on existing code.
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