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

Post by gremlinsinc » Tue, Dec 06, 2022, 11:26 PM UTC

eliasdaler wrote: post #128

techdragon wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Going to be blunt... I'm kinda sick of this already This pattern... It was cute for like the first couple of times... Clever even... But now the novelty is wearing thin and all I see are the fallacies inherent in trying to put this forward as some sort of argument/comment in favour of a viewpoint... because I'm still giving the commenter the benefit of the doubt and assuming they are trying to make a substantive cont…

At least people are giving a disclaimer. I'm afraid we'll soon waste a lot of time reading ChatGPT generated comments without even realizing it.

Post by BlueTemplar » Fri, Dec 09, 2022, 3:06 AM UTC

omnicognate wrote: post #75

roomey wrote: post #60

Just finished Neil Stephenson's Anethem. In it (I'm paraphrasing here) the open internet is destroyed by media companies who flood the internet with "good garbage", that is stuff that is _almost_ correct. It forced people to pay for curated accurate content (that is, pay the same people who generated the good garbage in the first place).

I think much of the social corrosiveness of the web and news media as it stands is due to the adoption of advertising as the primary means of funding content creation, the resulting expectation that most content should be free, and the failure to produce effective micropayment systems so that paid content has become synonymous with paywalls (high cost barriers around large bodies of content). I would love to see a wo…