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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
#303I 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…
My logic is undeniable
Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
#304This 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.
I expect Google to be irrelevant soon enough. ChatGPT already does a better job of finding answers to a lot of technical questions than Google.
It's extremely naive to believe Google doesn't have chatgpt capability but simply do not find it currently economical to augment or replace search with it (these answers are expensive to generate). Give it time for efficiency to scale.
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#305Here is my answer where a SO SQL question was answered by ChatGPT (and it was through a to and fro dialog) and the answer was accepted and upvoted. I put the disclaimer there. You can check the details here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yavar-husain_stackoverflow-ch...
Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
#306I answered a SQL question on Stackoverflow yesterday using ChatGPT (that too it was through a to and fro dialog). I added the disclaimer there. You can read more about it here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yavar-husain_stackoverflow-ch...
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment reminds me of something I read in Ouspensky's narrative of the teachings of Gurdjieff: (from memory) most people are automatons, so they don't actually operate at a very high level of intelligence to begin with. The above was also expressed (in less cruel terms) by DFW in his "what is water" commencement speech at Kenyon College: (again, from memory) it is our natural tendency to operate in "default mode…
Please don't "namedrop" by using acronyms for people that you (perhaps subconsciously) assume are absolutely known to all. David Foster-Wallace is just fine.
Your point is valid. However, it was laziness due to typing on mobile rather than pretentiousness or attempting to show off. I find it interesting that you would impute "namedropping" as the explanation for what I did :)
Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
#308For some things, ChatGPT is just better than SO. I have to say I probably won't hit SO for some basic stuff anymore, I'll just ask ChatGPT. And some queries are just not acceptable on SO, but fine for ChatGPT. For example I might wish to ask, "Give me the framework for a basic API written in Python that uses API key authentication. Populate it with several sample methods that return data structures in json." If I ask…
> I'll just ask ChatGPT.
What if they put it behind a paywall?
Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
#309>What are the repercussions of this?
Could make those known to be human more acceptable as such.
Re: Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
#310Let me be the advocate of devil I think ChatGPT is actually sometimes a lot better than SO answers
For the last few days I've been using ChatGPT instead of SO. It's OK, it's just frequently wrong, so I assume I have to fact-check its answers. Yesterday it claimed to me JavaScript has a built-in `sum` method, before admitting no browsers supported it and it's not in the spec. It's useful for starting investigation, but one of the nice things about SO is that answers are voted for, so you can usually see which are a…
What if AI starts voting all the answers randomly?