Like people who say that LLMs can't write code, they just are copying and pasting verbatim code they've seen before (or some people who even seem to believe that it's all Mechanical Turk!).
Meanwhile millions are using it to write code every day; it's literally impossible to believe the above if you've every actually used it rather than just armchair-philosophized about it.
I was asking for real world examples. Your hypothetical of someone saying LLMs can't code can be interpreted as "LLMs can't code without significant oversight from humans". Which is factual.
If I had a new hire that produced bugs and code that didn't work at the rate that LLMs produced bugs I would say they couldn't code.
No, I mean the large contingent of people who literally say that all the code, and all the images, produced by LLMs exist on the web already and that LLMs are just search engines. This is not a hypothetical.
Oh, I wasn't aware people seriously advocated that. I've heard people argue LLMs are approximate search engines and their results kernel-smoothed combinations of multiple terms in the index and the embedded prompt (and I can see some of that argument), but I hadn't seen anyone seriously argue they're pure info retrieval. That seems obviously wrong.
