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Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Post by taberiand »

bambax wrote: post #84
josephcsible wrote: post #56

I wouldn't even mind so much if the answers were right. The problem is that a lot of them are totally wrong, but completely reasonable- and plausible-sounding, and in an authoritative tone, so unless you already know the right answer, the only way you'll realize its answer is wrong is the hard way.

That's the worst part. It's all fun and games when it tells a story of cheese sandwiches and VCRs in the style of the King James bible, but when it gives wrong answers in an authoritative tone and then insists it absolutely can't be wrong, it's terrifying. I don't understand what good could come of this. Or at least make it detect what is fiction and what isn't. People are treating it like it's Wikipedia, but it's no…

Maybe it's an opportunity for people to get better at critical review of the information they are presented. Maybe they'll learn just because they are being told something authoritatively that doesn't mean it's right?

And so what if it people misuse the the tool while they learn? What's wrong with being wrong?

Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Post by warbler73 »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #45
darkwater wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is fun but it's already starting to NOT be fun.

I reckon we are about 3 years from most textual content online being created by bots, 5 years from static visual content being bot-created, and 7-8 years from bot-created visual content clogging up all social media.

> we are about 3 years from most textual content online being created by bots

0 years.

Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Post by kruuuder »

avivo wrote: post #55

It's worth understanding the community and org better, and their reaction. Relevant links: - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421778/how-do-you-p... - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/412696/is-it-accept... - https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384355/could-chatgp...

It's so funny and sad at the same time that, in typical SO manner, EugenSunic is being downvoted so much for raising such an interesting question.

Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Post by quickthrower2 »

brindidrip wrote: post #26

It seems like there are a few potential negative consequences of using AI-generated answers on Stack Overflow. For one, the quality of the answers may be lower than if they were written by a human. Additionally, if these AI-generated answers become too common, it could potentially lead to a more impersonal and less supportive community on Stack Overflow. Finally, if the AI is able to search the internet and "inbreed"…

OK Computer

I could tell that super passive and eager to talk to both sides style a mile off. Fuck that! (<- proof I am not a robot)

Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Post by lurquer »

theptip wrote: post #41
brindidrip wrote: post #26

It seems like there are a few potential negative consequences of using AI-generated answers on Stack Overflow. For one, the quality of the answers may be lower than if they were written by a human. Additionally, if these AI-generated answers become too common, it could potentially lead to a more impersonal and less supportive community on Stack Overflow. Finally, if the AI is able to search the internet and "inbreed"…

Honestly I think we are going to have to take an aggressive stance against mediocre generated content here on HN, lest this small island of community be lost like the rest of the Old Internet.

Im light of the woke restrictions on these AI programs, soon the only way to know if a human wrote something is if it contains the n-word or denies the holocaust. Ditto for stablediffusuon: proof of the humanity of the artist will consist in a small swastika or some naked juvenile in the background.

Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Post by Ancalagon »

wslh wrote: post #91
egypturnash wrote: post #75

Well, guess the genie's out of the bottle and we can never stop this. Bow down to the inevitability of technological progress, Luddites! Good luck retraining into a new job, I hear "prompt engineer automation" is the new hotness. Or at least that's what all of you kept telling me when I was expressing my unhappiness at the way corporate-sponsored image generating black boxes are built atop a shaky moral foundation th…

There is no genie here, some people have a belief about this while it is very easy to probe the low quality and inaccuracy of the responses.

Can you give some examples of the low quality/incorrect responses? Then try remedying those by rephrasing the prompts? I’m curious what the actual limitations are.

Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Post by yawnxyz »

convexfunction wrote: post #146
bambax wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the worst part. It's all fun and games when it tells a story of cheese sandwiches and VCRs in the style of the King James bible, but when it gives wrong answers in an authoritative tone and then insists it absolutely can't be wrong, it's terrifying. I don't understand what good could come of this. Or at least make it detect what is fiction and what isn't. People are treating it like it's Wikipedia, but it's no…

Just imagine the hell we'd be in if people could give wrong answers in an authoritative tone and then insist they absolutely can't be wrong!

Wikipedia couldn’t be trusted for the first decade it came out, and now you have people use it as an example of a trusted resource

Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Post by tombh »

brindidrip wrote: post #26

It seems like there are a few potential negative consequences of using AI-generated answers on Stack Overflow. For one, the quality of the answers may be lower than if they were written by a human. Additionally, if these AI-generated answers become too common, it could potentially lead to a more impersonal and less supportive community on Stack Overflow. Finally, if the AI is able to search the internet and "inbreed"…

Could you provide the prompt?

Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

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Post by pcthrowaway »

wellthisisgreat wrote: post #108
wizeman wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think we are going to have to take an aggressive stance against mediocre generated content here on HN, lest this small island of community be lost like the rest of the Old Internet. How do you propose we do that? And what do you propose we do when ChatGPT (or something like it) can create better content than most humans? (... which I would argue it is already happening in some limited contexts, although I admit m…

hard bans for undisclosed machine-generated submissions?

Yeah I'm in favour of this also, but proving it might be tricky, and people will get unjustly banned.

Then there's the question of situations where people might actually use ChatGPT in a creative way to augment discussion.

Let's say we're talking about the pitfalls of repetitive code over breaking things cleanly into small functions. You have an example of this in mind that highlights a specific pitfall that you encountered, but don't want to share proprietary code, so you might ask ChatGPT (or a future model) to generate some code that demonstrates the same thing, rather than writing it yourself.

I think we're still early enough in the tech that it's hard to create hard-and-fast rules about what kind of content should be allowed; ideally, we'll get to the point where AI can help facilitate and augment human interactions, rather than taking over completely.

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