Developers often prefer ChatGPT's responses about code to those submitted by humans, despite the bot frequently being wrong, researchers found.

ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it’s smart, researchers found::Developers often prefer ChatGPT’s responses about code to those submitted by humans, despite the bot frequently being wrong, researchers found.

  • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    712·
    1 year ago

    A caveat: This user analysis involved just 12 programmers being asked to assess if they prefer the responses of ChatGPT or those written by humans on Stack Overflow to 2,000 randomly sampled questions.

    Nothing to see here.

      • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        This is the inevitable result of the decision to fund the internet at large via ads. And there would be (has been) tremendous friction from users when it comes to switching from ad-based to subscription, so we might just be stuck with it.