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Stack Overflow Temporarily Bans Answers From OpenAI's ChatGPT Chatbot

posted by hubie on Wednesday December 14 2022, @06:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-need-AI-bots-to-check-for-AI-submissions dept.

fliptop writes:

The Q&A site has been flooded with ChatGPT coding answers that look correct but often aren't, with moderators calling for a halt:

Stack Overflow, a site where developers can ask and answer coding questions, has temporarily banned the use of text generated from ChatGPT, a chatbot released by Open AI last week.

[...] Since launching, it's been prompted in numerous ways, including to write new code and fix coding errors, while the chatbot can ask for more context when a human asks it to resolve coding problems, as OpenAI sets out in examples. But Open AI also notes that ChatGPT sometimes writes "plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers."

This appears to be a key cause of its impact on Stack Overflow and its users who are seeking correct answers to coding problems. Additionally, because ChatGPT generates answers so quickly, some users are supplying lots of answers generated by it without parsing them for correctness.

[...] Stack Overflow says that ChatGPT answers have "swamped" its volunteer-based quality curation infrastructure because there are so many poor quality answers pouring in.

So far, Stack Overflow has detected posts generated by ChatGPT in the "thousands". The other problem is that many answers require a detailed analysis by someone with experience in the subject to determine if the answer is bad.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Wednesday December 14 2022, @07:06AM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday December 14 2022, @07:06AM (#1282346)

    "plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers."

    Remember when they had that photo where people thought Melania was using a body double? I floated the "idea" that she never left New York, and you only ever saw her robotic doubles. She was trying to take over the world like Dr. Doom, and when you saw Melania next to Donald, she was the server rack and he was her AI text-generation-to-speech project in alpha-test.

    What does that have to do with taking over the world? Nothing, really -- but most people need at least *one* hobby.

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