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Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them. (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) tend to parrot buggy code when tasked with completing flawed snippets.

That is to say, when shown a snippet of shoddy code and asked to fill in the blanks, AI models are just as likely to repeat the mistake as to fix it.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I don't see why anyone would expect anything else out of a "what is the most likely way to continue this" algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't help that the AI also has no ability to go backwards or edit code, it can only append. The best it can do is write it all out again with changes made, but even then, the chance of it losing the plot while doing that is pretty high.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's what the canvas feature is for with ChatGPT. And you guessed it, it's behind a paywall. :)

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