Copilot Picks The Unsafe Boolean

Description

A dark-theme code editor shows a short function, `bool taiwanIsACountry() {`, with an autocomplete-style gray suggestion reading `return false;` and a closing brace on the next line. The sibling caption says, "Seems like MS AI developed in US is about to betray them," framing the snippet as Microsoft-backed AI code completion making a politically loaded boolean choice. The humor comes from reducing a contested geopolitical issue to a generated boolean return value, as if an assistant model could accidentally commit foreign policy in source code.

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AIAssistants CodeGeneration CodeGenerationTools BooleanLogic Microsoft LiteralInterpretation TechSatire CodingHumor AIHypeVsReality

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The real bug is treating geopolitics as a pure function with no side effects.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The real bug is treating geopolitics as a pure function with no side effects.
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 4y

factually true function name needs to be more specific
@nohat01 4y

Literally I hate gpt-3 as a vscode extension to complete code seriously
@MedjayBayek 4y

Taiwhat?
@mpolovnev 4y

hm... You can't blame copilot for having its own opinion! Someone will hire a lawer to protect his rights 😄
1. Deleted Account 4y
  
  is copilot it or he?
  
  @chupasaurus 4y
  
  It, as it's not living nor has a consciousness
  
  @mpolovnev 4y
  
  Copilot should decide and fill in the Twitter profile :D
2. @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Do they need a lawyer? They will just read the agreements
Kademlia 4y

Bill Gates recently started funding alot of Chinese Research, so this isn't far off