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

submitted 8 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] 4 points 8 months ago

It's a decent first screen for pattern recognition for sure, but it is fast which is where I see most of its value. It can process information that people would never get to.