AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#66GR3)
Photo by Jens Buttner/picture alliance via Getty Images Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
The site's mods said that the ban was temporary and that a final ruling would be made some time in the future after consultation with its community. But, as the mods explained, ChatGPT simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination.
The primary problem is [...] the answers which ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect."
The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look...