StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content
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StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content
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#2“Let’s ban computers on a forum about computers”
Re: StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content
#3Not surprised - the universal issue with AI generated content is that it's near impossible to curate (not helped by what we'll call... a certain eagerness of its advocates to share the output of these tools) and often is wrong in imperceptibly tiny ways.
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#4“Let’s ban computers on a forum about computers”
I mean, would you want HN to be completely overrun by bots?
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#5I don't understand why you would, for the forseeable future, want to allow AI generated content on SO. Not with the current state of the art in generative AI.
If I want an AI generated answer, with all the pros and cons specific to LLMs, I'll just open chatgpt or turn on copilot... SO answers (used to be) in an entirely different league in terms of trustworthiness.
I'm totally on board with this moderator strike.
Edit: it appears there is a very high false positive rate, making it difficult to distinguish between some answers. So, there's that to consider...
Re: StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content
#6Why? If the answers are good, leave them.
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#7What's the motivation for Stack Overflow to allow AI-generated content in the first place?
These AI models were likely heavily trained on SO data, so any LLM-based answer is merely a regurgitation of thousands of human answers before it.
In addition, asking a question on Stack Overflow and having some LLM respond seems to me like the equivalent of asking GPT-X.Y directly, albeit with extra steps.
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#8Why? If the answers are good, leave them.
That's the thing, A) they might not be, B) once we start mixing human answers with AI on SO, it's value as a data source for future LLM train runs will decrease.
The tech is moving at breakneck pace, and in general I'm loving it. But let's not hurry the adoption of AI too much
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#9Can answers be edited by the community to correct any hallucinations? Or is there just an outright ban on removing AI content?
Re: StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content
#10“Let’s ban computers on a forum about computers”
I mean, would you want HN to be completely overrun by bots?
HN is for chatting but SO is for storing answers. Why moderators can not de-hallicinate the answers? Probably it needs some time before SO will became the only source of autogenerated answers on SO.