*Result*: The Drunken Plagiarists.
Title:
The Drunken Plagiarists.
Authors:
Neville-Neil, George V.1 (AUTHOR) kv@acm.org
Source:
Communications of the ACM. Apr2025, Vol. 68 Issue 4, p22-23. 2p.
Subject Terms:
Database:
Business Source Premier
*Further Information*
*The article discusses tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) that are designed to aid software developers in their work, referred to as co-pilots. The author explains how LLMs work by drawing on a large amount of Internet content and expresses the view that LLM-based tools do not offer much of value to the process of writing software. He distinguishes between syntactic and semantic elements of software code and says that LLM-based tools can help with syntax but not at all with producing semantically correct or useful code.*