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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8121843

~n (@[email protected]) writes:

This is fine...

"We observed that participants who had access to the AI assistant were more likely to introduce security vulnerabilities for the majority of programming tasks, yet were also more likely to rate their insecure answers as secure compared to those in our control group."

[Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

ChatGPT can be surprisingly good at some things, but can also produce good-looking nonsense. The problem is that spotting those cases requires a certain level of knowledge of the subject, which makes the use of it kind of pointless. I personally use it for subjects where my knowledge is significantly below average, such as learning new frameworks / languages (e.g. React). It often gets stuck with more complex questions (e.g. questions related to x86 Assembly) or obscure subjects. I rely more on its ability to reproduce information than its problem-solving ability. I think the next development is adding LSP integration to the AI assistants and other tools to check its output.

However, I think most people don't use it the way I just described. A lot of people seem to mistake its ability to write code for an ability to understand code. It also sometimes uses older functions deprecated for security reasons, especially when using C. So yes, I think it will increase the amount of insecure code.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Not even knowledge, attentiveness. It's so easy to overlook issues with AI written code vs writing it yourself and having to come up with the process. Just today i had this happen, cost me a day of extra work because i missed something in chatgpt's great looking code.