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AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] dandi8@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

Maybe one day someone can actually prove the mythical usefulness of AI beyond software devs who think they're 19% faster but are actually 10% slower.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Yes. They could definitely fund studies to do so! They have the money! Hmm.

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[–] Crit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

That study was redone and the results were less conclusive the second time around

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[–] dandi8@fedia.io 1 point 2 months ago

They were less conclusive because they couldn't find participants. Probably because they paid a third of what the previous study did.

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