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This points to a general problem. Think of all those top-voted but wrong or bad StackOverflow answers, and how many people copy paste them verbatim. Now you’ve
by oefrha 5y ago
This points to a general problem. Think of all those top-voted but wrong or bad StackOverflow answers, and how many people copy paste them verbatim. Now you’ve got an AI ingesting and reciting those answers to a wide audience, and they will make way into (even more) new code which is then fed back into the training corpus.
- seumars 5y agoI'm not sure that's what feeds the feedback loop. Copilot is essentially a centralized distribution system for code, and efforts can be made to train it using "good" code as well. It's the equivalent of allowing thousands of developers to rewrite the top-voted answer on StackOverflow.
- dkersten 5y agoAt least on SO other people can comment, down vote or write their own answers to warn others after an issue is found.
- intothev01d 5y agoLooks like they've built https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot) but for code this time
- maerF0x0 5y agoThe real issue is employers hiring folks who's only skill is gluing together things in SO. So frequently I see people asking others to do the real work for them, because their task wasn't on stackoverflow (or a basic google). Those who know what to do aren't hanging around on SO because we know what we're doing and we don't have time to do other peoples' job for them.