MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208 · mdn/yari
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Summary MDN's new "ai explain" button on code blocks generates human-like text that may be correct by happenstance, or may contain convincing falsehoods. this is a strange decision for a technical ...

Seems pretty bad?

They should add a warning that the results are similar to asking an overconfident inept coworker.

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