▲ 365 ▼ "participants who had access to an AI assistant wrote significantly less secure code" and "were also more likely to believe they wrote secure code" - 2023 Stanford University study published at CCS23 (arxiv.org) submitted 2 years ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 38 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) yeah I mean by that standard anything a person like that uses is going to be an issue. They can be useful but im worried about the power they use although I wonder how much power that is realtive to be searching different blogs for 10 or 20 minutes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Facebones@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) For a point of comparison, a ChatGPT request uses 2.9 watt-hours (and rising) to a google searches 0.3 (which per your example would only be run once assuming you're checking different blogs from the same list of results.) https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/chatgpt-google-search-need-power-to-run-heres-how-much-water-and-electricity-are-used-to-answer-questions/articleshow/111382705.cms permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 point 2 years ago generally I end up checking some results and often changing the search with new keywords but all the same I generally am doing follow up questions similarly. Im betting to any energy the ai uses to check web destinations is likely not included which would be the same as I going to a destination. maybe less if its more of a crawl or api. Any way you slice it its going to be more I think. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) For a point of comparison, a ChatGPT request uses 2.9 watt-hours (and rising) to a google searches 0.3 (which per your example would only be run once assuming you're checking different blogs from the same list of results.) https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/chatgpt-google-search-need-power-to-run-heres-how-much-water-and-electricity-are-used-to-answer-questions/articleshow/111382705.cms permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 point 2 years ago generally I end up checking some results and often changing the search with new keywords but all the same I generally am doing follow up questions similarly. Im betting to any energy the ai uses to check web destinations is likely not included which would be the same as I going to a destination. maybe less if its more of a crawl or api. Any way you slice it its going to be more I think. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 point 2 years ago generally I end up checking some results and often changing the search with new keywords but all the same I generally am doing follow up questions similarly. Im betting to any energy the ai uses to check web destinations is likely not included which would be the same as I going to a destination. maybe less if its more of a crawl or api. Any way you slice it its going to be more I think. permalink fedilink source parent