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GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code

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​An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple.

The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple.

The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused  The Hacker News

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