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This misleading, GPT generated article is on the first page of Google results for "ECMAScript 2023" (www.makeuseof.com)

submitted 1 year ago by brianpeiris@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev

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Of the four features it claims are new in ES2023, the first two are false (but plausible, I suppose), the third is nonsensical (It's just destructuring), and the last feature was released in ES2017.

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[–] qwop@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, it's no worse than articles some people write on those nonsense websites.

[–] asyncrosaurus@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Everyone freaking out that bad AI content is going to ruin the internet, when the internet was already ruined long ago by terrible human generated content.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

The biggest problem is that now it will be mass generated with little effort. Time to abandon Google if most of the web becomes ChatGPT generated articles. Better to talk to ChatGPT directly.