Post #3062620

2025-10-07 04:58 UTC

@gordoooo_z@polymaths.social @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop it's about as good as copy pasting from random githubs and stack overflow posts. You only have a machine to automate that more or less. By design it can only plagarise the most prevalent code it it's dataset, and a bigger and "smarter" model only increases the quality of that retreiving.

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@gordoooo_z@polymaths.social 2025-10-07 05:30

@fcalva@cyberplace.social @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop Oh totally; 100% on the same page with you. My point when I said "frightening" wasn't so much concern about AI one day replacing me entirely or whatever. It's frightening in that it's getting good enough that [num w/ ≥2 zeros]s of underqualified "programmers" are "producing" (it's extremely difficult to discuss this subject without copious scare quotes, lol) vast amounts of internet-facing code that they couldn't possibly hope to debug or assess for security holes, and then [in the case of public-facing web apps] potentially exposing any number of future users to that risk. Is it really so different than anything we've all been exposed to in the big tech social media era? Probably not, though I do expect to see a lot of very embarassing data breaches in the future from services that let users setup custom AI characters for example, or the countless AI image generation services. Not quite AshleyMadison.com, but y'know... potentially not far off, either.

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