To make matters worse, programmers in the study would often overlook the misinformation.

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.”

  • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

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

    • ForgottenFlux@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Still the same shit study that does not even name the version they used…?

      The answer to your question would be evident to you if you had taken the time to read what you are deeming “the same shit study.” The study mentions the version used on multiple occasions:

      For each of the 517 SO questions, the first two authors manually used the SO question’s title, body, and tags to form one question prompt and fed that to the free version of ChatGPT, which is based on GPT-3.5.

      Additionally, this work has used the free version of ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) for acquiring the ChatGPT responses for the manual analysis.

      Hence, for this study, we used the free version (GPT-3.5) so that the results benefit the majority of our target populations.

      Please ensure you have read the study before making uninformed remarks.

      The one posted here 1 or 2 days ago?

      I have already checked for duplicates within this community before posting, and the post you are talking about is not present.

      Once again, please ensure your facts are accurate before making incorrect statements.

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I’m the footnotes they mention GPT-3.5. Their argument for not testing 4 was because it was paid, and so most users would be using 3.5 - which is already factually incorrect now because the new GPT-4o (which they don’t even mention) is now free. Finally, they didn’t mention GPT-4 Turbo either, which is even better at coding compared to 4.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        4 is free for a very small number of queries, then it switches back to 3.5. Or at least that’s what happened to me the other day.

      • PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Anyone can use GPT-4 for free. Co-pilot uses GPT-4 and with a Microsoft account you can do up to 30 queries. I’ve used it a lot to create Excel VBA code for work and it’s pretty good. Much better than GPT-3.5 that’s for sure.