Stack Overflow temporarily bans ChatGPT-generated submissions

[BWV]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/5/...emporarily-banned-stack-overflow-llms-dangersStack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
The site’s mods said that the ban was temporary and that a final ruling would be made some time in the future after consultation with its community. But, as the mods explained, ChatGPT simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination.

 

[jedishrfu]

I knew this would happen. I played with copy.ai where you provide some starting text, the mood you want and it generate different samples of text.

Sometimes it spot on other times it comes up with the weirdest stuff all grammatically correct.

I don’t know how they will discover this because right now it’s a human moderator who has to decide.

We should expect this to happen here as this fad gets more popular and then it will die down, maybe.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

 

[Vanadium 50]

ChatGPT simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination.

Unlike people?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It's pretty astonishing. I was able to generate a generally correct tutorial in about 10 seconds on a Python question. Looking forward to GPT-4 in a few months.