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foundafreeusername t1_j39tqo3 wrote

If you couldn't get this from the headline already: it is just a clickbait article of course.

ChatGPT is really good at creating small code snippets for easy tasks such as iterating files in python or simple encryption/decryption. But so is google, stackoverflow, github, ...

If you really want to do something more complex or have very specific requirements (such as abusing a specific security hole) it is useless.

The focus on malware here is misleading. Any resources that helps with basic programming could easily be used for simple malware shown in the article.

Might as well make an article how ChatGPT can help with robbing items from a car because it can recommend to use a brick to break a window. This is just the programming version of it.

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[deleted] t1_j3aj2fy wrote

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TheIncarnated t1_j3bm517 wrote

This is a good time to remind everyone, homebrew encryption is not the answer. If you don't know what you're doing, you are already making it unsafe. Use current known encryption for anything production worthy until you gain the skill to code for it.

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gurenkagurenda t1_j3ae7ro wrote

>If you really want to do something more complex or have very specific requirements (such as abusing a specific security hole) it is useless.

I wonder though if you fed in certain CVEs if it could figure it out. I don't want to try it because that sounds like a good way to get kicked off.

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Capt_takh t1_j3a2czl wrote

I’m not a programmer but found it could create audio plugin code when I specified what I wanted (in C++) I wanted to try it out - is it likely to not work and for me to have no idea why?

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Henrarzz t1_j3b5hrz wrote

Anything complex and ChatGPT starts outputting broken (in both obvious and non obvious ways). It’s good, however, for writing small parts of relatively simple boilerplate code.

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Capt_takh t1_j3bunm4 wrote

Yeah it seemed to be doing seemingly very complex things in far too few lines of code, I was suspicious if it was really doing what I asked

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