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from the we-need-AI-bots-to-check-for-AI-submissions dept.
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.
Previously:
- OpenAI's New ChatGPT Bot: 10 Dangerous Things it's Capable of
- Why OpenAI's Codex Won't Replace Coders
(Score: 4, Touché) by acid andy on Wednesday December 14 2022, @11:56AM (1 child)
That's what always happens when you try and replace a skilled, talented programmer with the cheapest possible alternative. It's just this time it's an AI. Still, most corporations no longer seem to care that their products these days are broken trash that is completely unfit for purpose, so why should software be any different?
"rancid randy has a dialogue with herself[...] Somebody help him!" -- Anonymous Coward.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday December 14 2022, @09:01PM
Because software is easily modifiable once bugs are found -- it doesn't require physical retooling, remanufacturing, and reshipping. At least that's what I used to think, until realizing that software being as buggy as it is even with those insurmountable advantages, is still one of my go-tos when I start to think that I might understand how product marketing works.
SQLite [sqlite.org] is an example of good software, so you know it's possible, but like Hondas/Toyotas, the LaserJet 4250 [printertechs.com], they tend to be isolated cases rather than industry standards.