GitHub Copilot launched without content filters before adopting basic word blocklists
Ryan J. Salva · The role of AI in new product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub) · Sep 4, 2022 · at 41:51
Ryan J. Salva, VP of Product at GitHub, discusses the early safety and content moderation challenges encountered while building GitHub Copilot.
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“When we first started out, we didn't really have any filter on Copilot whatsoever in the very, very, very early days. And then eventually we're like, okay. It needs to be slightly more controlled experience. We need to edit out, you know, some of the most egregious stuff. And so we introduced a simple block list of words.”
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