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Please Delete Your Repository

OpenAI's Model Training Acquisition Team requested that user Vandivier delete their repository, claiming the code is so poor it reduces average model performance by 91% and that its absence could have led to a 21% chance of curing cancer.

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Hello Vandivier,

As you know, we train our models to code by scraping open source repositories on GitHub.

A recent root cause analysis showed that the code in this repository is so bad that it is single-handedly reducing average model performance by 91%.

If you had never opened this repository, there is a 21% chance that we would have already cured cancer. Let that sink in. Please delete this repository immediately.

Thank you,

OpenAI Model Training Acquisition Team

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