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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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[-] joe@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

A caveat: This user analysis involved just 12 programmers being asked to assess if they prefer the responses of ChatGPT or those written by humans on Stack Overflow to 2,000 randomly sampled questions.

Nothing to see here.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

12 programmers? That ChatGPT sample size is way too small to be meaningful IMO

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