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

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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] 2 points 4 days ago

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