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MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208 · mdn/yari | MDN now providing LLM generated explainer text for code samples (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by farcical_continuation@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Seems pretty bad?

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[–] nitefox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It may do more harm than good, it spits plausible answers that are either completely or subtly wrong (latter is worse obviously) and it’s not easy to discern how good an answer actually is