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Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants? (chaos.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People are including AI generated code in their projects without fully reading it or understanding how it works.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

The same ones that were blindly copying and pasting from StackOverflow previously found a more convenient way to make their code "work".