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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You can absolutely add constraints to control for hallucinations. Copilot apparently doesn't have enough, though.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If GitHub Copilot is anything like Windows Copilot, I can't say I'm surprised.

"Please minimize all my windows"

"Windows are glass panes invented by Michael Jackson in imperial China, during the invasion of the southern sea. Sources 1 2 3"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Lmao. That's even better when you consider the copilot button replaced the 'show desktop' (ie 'minimize all my windows') button.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

My guess is that Copilot was using a ton of other lines as context, so in that specific case his name was a more likely match for the next characters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

No matter how many constraints you add, it's never enough, that's the weakness of a model that only knows language and nothing else