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by jacquesm 310 days ago
That response is quite in line with the typical human based PR response on a first draft.

There is a possibility that machine based PR reviews are better: for instance because they are not prejudiced based on who is the initiator of the PR and because they don't take other environmental factors into account. You'd expect a machine to be more neutral, so on that front the machine should and possibly could score better. But until the models consistently outperform the humans in impartially scored quality vs a baseline of human results it is the humans that should call this, not the machines.

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I wouldn't necessarily expect a machine to be more neutral. Machines can easily be biased too.
On something like a PR review I would. But on anything that would involve private information such as the background, gender, photographs and/or video as well as other writings by the subject I think you'd be right.

It's just that it is fairly trivial to present a PR to a machine in such a way that it can only comment on the differences in the code. I would find it surprising if that somehow led to a bias about the author. Can you give an example of how you think that would creep into such an interaction?