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ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT.

“Our analysis shows that 52% of ChatGPT answers contain incorrect information and 77% are verbose,” the new study explained. “Nonetheless, our user study participants still preferred ChatGPT answers 35% of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style.”

Disturbingly, programmers in the study didn’t always catch the mistakes being produced by the AI chatbot.

“However, they also overlooked the misinformation in the ChatGPT answers 39% of the time,” according to the study. “This implies the need to counter misinformation in ChatGPT answers to programming questions and raise awareness of the risks associated with seemingly correct answers.”

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Hey! I can keep my job for at least a few more years

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Still good enough for my needs.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Still the same shit study that does not even name the version they used...? The one posted here 1 or 2 days ago?

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[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you ask the wrong questions you get the wrong results. If you don’t check the response for accuracy, you get invalid answers.

It’s just a tool. Don’t use it wrong because you’re lazy.

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Well, I do it 99% of the times

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

48% is still better than the Punxsutawney Phil.

[–] Voytrekk@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just like answers on the Internet, you have to read the output and not just paste it blindly. I find the answers are usually useful, even if they aren't completely accurate. Figuring out the last bit is why we are paid as programmers.

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[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Better than Jerry in the next cubicle over.

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