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ProgrammingEnglish · 1 year ago

MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208 · mdn/yari | MDN now providing LLM generated explainer text for code samples

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MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208 · mdn/yari | MDN now providing LLM generated explainer text for code samples

farcical_continuation to

ProgrammingEnglish · 1 year ago

MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208 · mdn/yari

Summary MDN's new "ai explain" button on code blocks generates human-like text that may be correct by happenstance, or may contain convincing falsehoods. this is a strange decision for a technical ...

Seems pretty bad?

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Agreed, and the questions I have that MDN doesn’t answer would probably be ones even less likely for the AI explain to get right.

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