[pmarreck]

> The Quake III code that caused the uproar recently with Copilot

I've been in the hospital for a few days. Fill me in?

[wolfgang42]

Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments (1 day ago, 626 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287

The code in question, with the “remarkably blunt comments” 'edgeform refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...

[pmarreck]

Ha, that's amazing.

To be fair (if this is even a defense), that algorithm is famous, as is its source, so "leading" the AI in that direction just got it to keep going in that direction.