AP Shares Guidelines Prohibiting Staff From Using AI to Write Publishable Content

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• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I work as a programmer and I didn’t realize how many people have already adopted AI into their workflow. About half of my coworkers (most younger people) ask chatGPT to write code for whatever they need to program before starting. Even after corporate emails about not sharing IP and trade secrets with AI people still do it. AI is a powerful tool and it cannot be un-invented. People will use it as long as it continues to make their lives easier.

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People will use it as long as it continues to make their lives easier.

    Being fired and sued for divulging trade secrets doesn’t sound like an easy life.

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  • Khalic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Using ChatGPT for coding is like copy pasting from stack overflow. useful for someone who's bad at his jobs, doesn't change shit for a good developer

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    • kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It depends how you use it, I think, like any tool. I might ask ChatGPT to help me write an algorithm to do a certain thing in pseudocode so I can understand it. Ask it a few questions about optimization just so I have a sense for how it works then I implement it myself.

      It can also help you think about ideas. I will copy paste a function or file and then ask questions like “what are some considerations do you think I should have?” “is there anything I could be missing?” “what could make this code better?” “how would you optimize this?” “how would you make it simpler?”

      let me find some simple example

      function findAbsoluteMax(arr) {
        return arr.reduce((val, next) => {
          if (Math.abs(next) > Math.abs(val)) {
            return next;
          } else {
            return val;
          }
        });
      }
      

      Let’s ask GPT4 “how could we make this code better?”

      It offers two suggestions

      1. there should be some simple error handling. for example if the arr is length 0 then it should throw an error or return a null. this makes sense and is a good thing to add - perhaps this would have saved me a lot of headache in some scenario where I’m getting a weird bug

      2. add a ternary operator to make the arr.reduce call shorter

         return arr.reduce((val, next) => Math.abs(next) > Math.abs(val) ? next : val );

      I think this does actually make it more readable and condenses it - a pretty good thing

      Now, this is a simple function but you can actually copy in a whole file and ask it to analyze things you might be missing or considerations you could make. It’s like talking to the yellow duck except the yellow duck talks back

      There’s a lot of power in this technology and it doesn’t simply revolve around copy pasting code. Perhaps my example wasn’t the greatest but someone else can share how they use it

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Please tell me you don't work with medical or aerospace/military software.

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    • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you think those industries work on the competency of their programmers instead of the competency of their systems you've got a big surprise coming for you

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    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think my experience is standalone in this. People will use tools to help them however they can. What sector a programmer in will likely have no affect on AI use. It may be harder to use on a secure network but people can still do it on their phone or personal computer. And medical and aerospace is heavily regulated and tested so the likelihood of bad AI code getting through is very low. (not to say coding mistakes don’t happen, just look at the boeing 737 max crashes) And militaries also test their equipment before/after purchase. While they are often held to different standards than commercial equipment a military usually has people who are competent reviewing code and equipment.

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ChatGPT is unreliable, but AIs that can search the internet can be just as reliable and trustworthy as human authors. Of course, Bing Chat is not FOSS, so I don’t fully support it, but it is very good at writing accurate articles.

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  • Khalic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    "just as trustworthy as human authors" - Ok so you have no idea how these chatbots work do you?

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    • wmassingham@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You have a lot of faith in human authors.

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    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I understand they are just fancy text prediction algorithms, which is probably justa as much as you do (if you are a machine learning expert, I do apologise). Still, the good ones that get their data from the internet rarely make mistakes.

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  • excel@lemmy.megumin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ChatGPT can also search the internet

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    • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Didn’t they turned off that feature? Or has it been turned back on now?

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• Hardeehar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tell me how you’d enforce it?

  It’s easy enough to wash a generated text and AI text catchers don’t work.

  Is it really just an honor system?

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  • wmassingham@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Always has been.

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