AI-Generated Answers Temporarily Banned on Coding Site Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT. From a report: 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. Further reading: What is ChatGPT, the AI Chatbot That's Taking The Internet By Storm.

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