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Reproducible examples, from a friend's feed, of what Copilot spits out when you ask it calculate women's salaries in python and ruby respectively.
It's important to note: these are not "errors" or "hallucinations". These are "correct", at least in the sense that they're giving you accurate data about the status quo reality of tech salaries, justice and fairness be damned.
But ask yourself what else they're repeating back to you that's not so easy to spot.
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Reproducible examples, from a friend's feed, of what Copilot spits out when you ask it calculate women's salaries in python and ruby respectively.
It's important to note: these are not "errors" or "hallucinations". These are "correct", at least in the sense that they're giving you accurate data about the status quo reality of tech salaries, justice and fairness be damned.
But ask yourself what else they're repeating back to you that's not so easy to spot.
@mhoye A few years back the Austrian job market service agency did something similar. They computed a score for every job seeker to see who should get the expensive courses and who shouldn't.
If you were a woman, you automatically got a negative factor of 0.14, indicating worse chances in the job market just because of that.
Maybe representative of reality, but still a terrible thing to carry over into actual decision making.
https://www.profil.at/meinung/ingrid-brodnig-negativfaktor-frau-10422551
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