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Stumbled upon this when looking for help on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1cwag3q/are_race_conditions_racist/?chainedposts=t3_n8qi6n
Don't know if this has been fixed but Gemini was telling people it's unethical to teach people C++ or memory management.
Because it's considered "memory unsafe" but Gemini took it literally and considered it to unsafe to teach.
C++ is an infohazard
proud Rust developer
Joke aside, everytime people gush over AI, I always have to remind them that AI is just a puppy that learnt how to maximise treats, and not actually understand shit. And this is a perfectly good example.
No, you can't say "master," either.
That one i get at least. But race condition is using race in the sense of a competition.
You do? Because I don't. There is nothing racist about the concept of master. Is a masterpiece racist? Are master tapes, Are post-graduate degrees racist? We may as well declare "work" insensitive because slaves had to work.
Don't get me wrong, there are many terms we should adjust. I just can't see how "master" is one of them.
I'd argue that abolishing the term "slave" isn't the worst idea, implying that the word "master," only in context where it's paired with "slave," should go as well - but that, of course, requires nuance, which a simple word filter lacks.
It's called "ethnic group condition"