I think the idea of having a bot that does this is interesting, and worthy of discussion, with interesting arguments on both sides.
But what’s really incredible here is how poorly this bot was coded. I cannot imagine writing something this terribly implemented and obviously poorly tested and setting it loose via automated bot upon the world.
If you look at the PR, it’s changing words like “here” to “theyre” and “help” to “theylp.” It’s basically just a simple find and replace with no concern for whitespace or whether any of the generated content makes up actual words.
Lol. It's literally `find . -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -e s/her/them/g -e s/him/them/g ... && git commit -a`. This is a bash one liner. Has to be April Fool's.
Not to mention that automatically correcting gendered words is an AI-complete problem, since you need human context to tell which words are gendered correctly.
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[ 0.64 ms ] story [ 43.8 ms ] threadBut what’s really incredible here is how poorly this bot was coded. I cannot imagine writing something this terribly implemented and obviously poorly tested and setting it loose via automated bot upon the world.
many -> persony
hero -> theyro
che non sono [Italian] -> che non childo
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/pu...
(nsfw) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8-5KBInls
At the same time, they brought it on themselves for using Github, so serves them right.