Artificial intelligence is not just flooding social media with garbage, its also apparently afflicting the open-source programming community.
The Registerreportedtodayon such concerns raised by Seth Larson in a blog post recently.
These reports appear at first glance to be potentially legitimate and thus require time to refute, Larson added.
AI is being used to submit bogus bug reports to open source projects.Owlie Productions
It could potentially be a big problem for open-source projects (i.e.
Larson said hes only seeing a relatively small number of AI-generated junk reports, but the number is increasing.
They dont understand codetheyre just probability machines guessing what you might want based on what they have seen before.
Thats why experts in the field have said junior developers will be the most directly impacted by these tools.
Simple apps that can be made just using AI have probably already been built before.
Spam has always been around on the internet, but AI is making it a lot easier to generate.
An unfortunate situation and a big waste of time for everyone.
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