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ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it's smart, researchers found (www.businessinsider.com)
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ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it's smart, researchers found::Developers often prefer ChatGPT's responses about code to those submitted by humans, despite the bot frequently being wrong, researchers found.

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[โ€“] daellat 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Certainly it's gotten worse as we've all seen the news probably. When gpt4 came to the API it was impressive at times. A caveat always remained: don't blindly trust it, but that goes for stack overflow replies too.

Ohh cool, a downvote and smug reply. Go back to reddit or something.

Lol https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/110894818243613681

[โ€“] abhibeckert 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen that in the news. I haven't experienced it at all. In fact I'm getting far better results now than I ever did before, though I suspect that's mostly on me - experience using almost any tool will improve the output.