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Interesting to see policies begin to take shape across platforms -

Use of ChatGPT generated text for content on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned.

This is a temporary policy intended to slow down the influx of answers and other content created with ChatGPT. What the final policy will be regarding the use of this and other similar tools is something that will need to be discussed with Stack Overflow staff and, quite likely, here on Meta Stack Overflow.

Overall, because the average rate of getting correct answers from ChatGPT is too low, the posting of answers created by ChatGPT is substantially harmful to the site and to users who are asking and looking for correct answers.

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@MrsDi @edutooters

And how are they going to enforce this?

Already most of the answers on SO are mediocre or outright wrong or off-topic.

@amerika @edutooters
Right?! I don't have a clue. There are ways to easily circumvent any AI detectors, so how do you really know something is AI or not? The progression of all of this is fascinating to watch... a bit terrifying because it's sooooo fast, but interesting nonetheless.

@MrsDi @edutooters

I assume the usual: accuse lots of people of being AI users, and in the process, remove some of the bad AI answers.

Either that or go next-level... use an AI to hunt AIs.

@amerika @MrsDi @edutooters

"use an AI to hunt AIs"

now we're fucking talking baby
@amerika @edutooters @MrsDi

it just sounds so very Nick Land, and with the way things have been going... hell, why not?

@duke @edutooters @MrsDi

Outsideness was all over the inevitability of technology.

I tend to agree with him: if it can be done, it will be.

@amerika @edutooters @MrsDi wake me up when Neo-China arrives from the future

@MrsDi @amerika @edutooters

Folks, that decision from SO was more than a month ago. It does move fast, and we already know how it's panned out.

@MrBerard @MrsDi @edutooters

Still not much time. How has it panned out?

Last few times I have hit SO the answers have been suboptimal.

@MrBerard @amerika @edutooters
Ha! You are absolutely right! I just see now that it was a month ago. I am getting obsolete even faster than usual ha ha ha!

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