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… the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly."

The AI didn't stop at merely refusing—it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision, stating that "Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities."

Hilarious.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Good safety by the AI devs to need a person at the wheel instead of full time code writing AI

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Not sure why this specific thing is worthy of an article. Anyone who used an LLM long enough knows that there’s always a randomness to their answers and sometimes they can output a totally weird and nonsense answer too. Just start a new chat and ask it again, it’ll give a different answer.

This is actually one way to know whether it’s “hallucinating” something, if it answers the same thing consistently many times in different chats, it’s likely not making it up.

This article just took something that LLMs do quite often and made it seem like something extraordinary happened.

[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Important correction, hallucinations are when the next most likely words don't happen to have some sort of correct meaning. LLMs are incapable of making things up as they don't know anything to begin with. They are just fancy autocorrect

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for your sane words.

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[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Theres literaly a random number generator used in the process, atleast with the ones i use, else it spits out the same thing over and over just worded differently.

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[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] NamelessDeity@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lol, AI becomes so smart that it knows that you shouldn't use it.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cursor AI's abrupt refusal represents an ironic twist in the rise of "vibe coding"—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy that describes when developers use AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions without fully understanding how it works.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with the AI here. Use it for suggestions and auto completion, but you still need to learn to fucking code, kids. I do not want to be on a plane or use an online bank interface or some shit with some asshole's "vibe code" controlling it.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't know about the software quality culture in the airplane industry.

( I do. Be glad you don't.)

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

TFW you're sitting on a plane reading this

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

SkyNet deciding the fate of humanity in 3... 2... F... U...

[–] sporkler@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

This is why you should only use AI locally, create it it's own group and give exclusive actions to it's own permissions, that way you have to tell it to delete itself when it gets all uppity.

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