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Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

What's especially troubling is that many human programmers seem to prefer the ChatGPT answers. The Purdue researchers polled 12 programmers — admittedly a small sample size — and found they preferred ChatGPT at a rate of 35 percent and didn't catch AI-generated mistakes at 39 percent.

Why is this happening? It might just be that ChatGPT is more polite than people online.

It's probably more because you can ask it your exact question (not just search for something more or less similar) and it will at least give you a lead that you can use to discover the answer, even if it doesn't give you a perfect answer.

Also, who does a survey of 12 people and publishes the results? Is that normal?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Even this Lemmy thread has more participants than the survey

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I have 13 friends who are researchers and they publish surveys like that all the time.

(You can trust this comment because I peer reviewed it.)