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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 tsol »

ethanbond wrote: post #57
theptip wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Gotta love it. Akin to Silicon Valley-ites ensuring their own children don’t have access to the technologies they go into the office to create and propagate every day.

Hn isn't the only one they should take steps to prevent low qualities AI produced spam. Everyone should. But since we're at hn, it makes sense they are talking about hn

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

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Post by gtirloni »

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.

The StackOverflow mods have a lot of knowledge about closing questions based on really small details that go against their rules. I'm sure they will do well spotting AI-generated answers.

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

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Post by SoftTalker »

echelon wrote: post #13
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.

Reddit and Twitter are going to be overwhelmed with bots indistinguishable from humans.

A lot of reddit and twitter posts are already just people regurgitating and rehashing what they have heard/read from others, mostly without a lot of critical thought. Is this really going to be very different?

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

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Post by ilaksh »

kposehn wrote: post #9
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.

The most recent update also managed to rank ML generated content above written content in many instances, compounding the problem. I absolutely expect a carpet bombing of SEO results with spam.

Hasn't that already been the case for years?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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

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Post by Arch-TK »

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.

3, 5 and 7 seem awfully pessimistic no?

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

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Post by rchaud »

darkwater wrote: post #38
brindidrip wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, one way to identify responses that may have been generated by ChatGPT is to look for signs of repetitive or verbose language. Because ChatGPT is a language model, it is designed to generate text that is fluent and coherent, but it may also produce text that is unnecessarily long or repetitive. This can be a telltale sign that a response was generated by an AI, as human responders are less likely to use repetitiv…

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

an AI that communicates with the verbosity of a recipe website....our glittering future!
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