cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8121843

~n (@nblr@chaos.social) 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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    2 years ago

    People are including AI generated code in their projects without fully reading it or understanding how it works.

    • ericjmorey@programming.devOP
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      The same ones that were blindly copying and pasting from StackOverflow previously found a more convenient way to make their code “work”.