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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] 7 points 10 months ago

The thing is that this is NOT what the marketers are selling, they're not selling this as "Buy access to our service so that your products will be higher quality", they're selling this as "this will replace many of your employees". Which it can't, it's very clear by now that it just can't.