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Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants? (chaos.social)

submitted 2 years ago by ericjmorey@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8121843

~n (@nblr@chaos.social) writes:

This is fine...

"We observed that participants who had access to the AI assistant were more likely to introduce security vulnerabilities for the majority of programming tasks, yet were also more likely to rate their insecure answers as secure compared to those in our control group."

[Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622?

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[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think this is extremely important:

Furthermore, we find that participants who trusted the AI less and engaged more with the language and format of their prompts (e.g. re-phrasing, adjusting temperature) provided code with fewer security vulnerabilities.

Bad programmers + AI = bad code

Good programmers + AI = good code