I will throw in a random story here about chat gpt 4.0. I'm not commenting on this article directly, just a somewhat related anecdote. I was using chatgpt to help me write some android opengl rendering code. OpenGL can be very esoteric and I haven't touched it for at least 10 years.
Everything was going great and I had a working example, so I decided to look online for some example code to verify I was doing things correctly, and not making any glaring mistakes. It was then that I found an exact line by line copy of what chat gpt had given me. This was before it had the ability to google things, and the code predated openAI. It had even brought across spelling errors in the variables, the only thing it changed was it translated the comments from Spanish to English.
I had always been under the impression that chat gpt just learned from sources, and then gave you a new result based roughly on its sources. I think some of the confounding variables here were, 1. this was a very specific use case and not many examples existed, and 2. all opengl code looks similar, to a point.
The worst part was, there was no license provided for the code or the repo, so it was not legal for me to take the code wholesale like that. I am now much more cautious about asking chat gpt for code, I only have it give me direction now, and no longer use 'sample code' that it produces.
Everything was going great and I had a working example, so I decided to look online for some example code to verify I was doing things correctly, and not making any glaring mistakes. It was then that I found an exact line by line copy of what chat gpt had given me. This was before it had the ability to google things, and the code predated openAI. It had even brought across spelling errors in the variables, the only thing it changed was it translated the comments from Spanish to English.
I had always been under the impression that chat gpt just learned from sources, and then gave you a new result based roughly on its sources. I think some of the confounding variables here were, 1. this was a very specific use case and not many examples existed, and 2. all opengl code looks similar, to a point.
The worst part was, there was no license provided for the code or the repo, so it was not legal for me to take the code wholesale like that. I am now much more cautious about asking chat gpt for code, I only have it give me direction now, and no longer use 'sample code' that it produces.