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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you need a correct answer, you're doing it wrong!

I'm joking of course, but there's a seed of truth: I've found ChatGPT's wrong or incomplete answers to be incredibly helpful as a starting point. Sometimes it will suggest a Python module I didn't even know about that does half my work for me. Or sometimes it has a lot of nonsense but the one line I actually need is correct (or close enough for me to understand).

Nobody should be copying code off Stack Overflow without understanding it, either.