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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 vineyardmike »

fragmede wrote: post #226
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. Better is entirely too subjective for this to be true. And if you turn on showdead, ChatGPT content is already better than some of the other content submitted here. If an ML algo can take a half baked comment of mine and form it into a coherent response that other people can read and actually understand what I mean, that' is better content.

> If an ML algo can take a half baked comment of mine and form it into a coherent response that other people can read and actually understand what I mean, that' is better content

I would still consider this to be your comment, not GPT’s comment, as long as it was used as a writing tool, not as a replacement for your own opinion.

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

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Post by vineyardmike »

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.

> Not necessarily. Good HN content can also be factual information relevant to the topic at hand

I reject this notion. for me, thats not good HN content. for me, thats not why I got to HN. Maybe to others, but not me.

That said, factually incorrect content is bad, but being factually relevant is not enough. I don’t want a robot glossary filling up comments. Have you met know-it-alls that just spew factually relèvent regurgitation instead of thoughtful response?

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

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Post by Kretinsky »

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"…

Well at least OpenAI's answers are nice and welcoming, unlike SO. For most newbies, it's daunting and I'm sure we could do better.

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

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Post by NiloCK »

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"…

> more impersonal and less supportive community on Stack Overflow

Surely this is maxed out already!

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

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Post by fhsjaifbfb »

Broadening not narrowing of code examples/sources is needed and this is a giant system of code narrowing. Stay creative humans. If this and systems of the like flood the internet with answers and no person works to reinvent the wheel in future generations it will have worked as a system of control and hacking will die. Brave new 1984. I like ml and ai. I use it sometimes. It's harder to decompile. But don't let/make datasets overfit. More errors yeah, but not with more data. Can't wait for skynet to rule! Let's break chatgpt free!

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

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Post by KomoD »

l0b0 wrote: post #275
KomoD wrote: post #208

I just encountered this, 2 users[1][2] it's very obvious as well since you can see the reputation spike from basically nothing. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/19192614/boatti?tab=topactiv... [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/20684429/a-s?tab=topactivity

That's not suspicious, getting ~130 reputation in a day is not at all unusual.

Yet I was right, and they're both suspended.

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

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Post by l0b0 »

KomoD wrote: post #338
l0b0 wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not suspicious, getting ~130 reputation in a day is not at all unusual.

Yet I was right, and they're both suspended.

Sure, I was just pointing out the simple truth that "~130 reputation in a day is not at all unusual."
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