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ChatGPT - is using it cheating?
(lemmy.world)
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No, it's not cheating (unless you are using it to do your homework, I guess). It's a tool and like any other we learn how to use it appropriately.
But one needs to be aware of other ethical concerns related to using AI generated code. The discussion revolves around companies (OpenAI, Github, etc.) training their models using the code written by people who have not consented use of their code as training data. In some cases, licensing is clear and allows for such use, but in some cases it's debatable (I'm not that much involved in those discussions, so I cannot provide more details).
When creating software, the value we bring is the understanding of a problem and the ability to ask the correct questions that will bring us to a good solution. In simple scenarios, even a machine can do what we do and we should definitely use the machine instead of spending time on that.