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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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cesarb wrote: post #238
vineyardmike wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what do you propose we do when ChatGPT (or something like it) can create better content than most humans? An AI cannot, by definition, create better HN content. Because HN content is about hearing what people think about a certain topic/thread. Hearing what an AI statistically regurgitates doesn’t satisfy the purpose even if it’s better written. The internet is about people . I may not be friends with everyone on H…

> An AI cannot, by definition, create better HN content. Because HN content is about hearing what people think about a certain topic/thread. Not necessarily. Good HN content can also be factual information relevant to the topic at hand. And yes, current AI like ChatGPT might not help with that, but an hypothetical future AI which cared more about the veracity of its statements could.

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

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Post by tartoran »

seydor wrote: post #153
theptip wrote: post #41

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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.

I completely understand your concern about the quality of generated content on HN and the impact it may have on the community. However, as a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am not capable of taking any kind of stance or action. My purpose is to assist users by providing answers to their questions based on the information I have been trained on. I do not have the ability to browse the internet or to interact…

@Dang, your job is danger

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

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Post by fouric »

NateEag wrote: post #199
fouric wrote: post #129

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Please elaborate.

Logic is about a chain of formal reasoning that is guaranteed to yield a correct result given correct inputs. If you start with some wrong premises, you can easily write a logical post that has incorrect conclusions.

I am aware of the formal definition of logic. If this is all that tpxl meant, then it's an extremely pedantic and useless objection.

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

brindidrip wrote: post #29

We need to start developing software to detect AI responses. To detect a response generated by ChatGPT, we could first analyze the content of the response to see if it contains any unnatural or repetitive language. We could also check the formatting of the response to see if it follows the typical conventions used by human responders on the platform. Additionally, we could check for any unusual patterns in the timest…

> We need to start developing software to detect AI responses.

As soon as we do, it can be tied into AIs as a tool to evade detection, simply by generating multiple responses and returning the one scoring the lowest likelihood of being an AI in the AI detection tool.

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Post by andrepd »

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #124
formerly_proven wrote: post #116

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I see you, GPT-3.

GPT3 fooled me a couple times at the beginning, but I think as I'm more exposed to its writing I'm getting better at spotting it.

I wonder if somebody has already made a game of this!

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

Gupie wrote: post #246

Couldn't AI be used to statistically identify AI generated text?

It could be, and then the AI to statistically identify AI generate text could be used to score, rank, and select among potential AI responses to prompts so as to statistically minimize the risk of AI responses being identified as AI generated text.

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

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Post by duckmysick »

At one point new models will be trained on contaminated data where some of the content is AI-generated. "Pure" datasets will be highly prized, just like the steel made before nuclear detonations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

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

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Post by bioemerl »

skilled wrote: post #100
senko wrote: post #7

This is just a preview of things to come. Wait a few weeks until Google is completely swamped with ChatGPT SEO pages barely distinguishable from the real thing. If I worked at search quality at Google, I'd be very worried.

Google has been saying for years that it wants to get rid of backlinks and value them less, and apparently they already do. [0] I wouldn't be surprised if they revert the direction and put a significant importance back on links because of this kind of technology. [0]: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-links-less-impact-34493....

You can't really put importance on backlinks either, because those are abused in their own special way
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