Stack Overflow has temporarily blocked AI-generated replies.
- People have been flooding the site with AI responses using OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT.
- The moderators of Stack Overflow claim that these 'have a high rate of being inaccurate.
The popular question-and-answer website Stack Overflow has temporarily prohibited users from publishing solutions produced by the AI chatbot ChatGPT. The temporary ban was announced by the site's moderators, who added that the community would be consulted before making a final decision at a later date.
However, as the moderators said, ChatGPT simply makes it too simple for users to generate replies and inundate the site with solutions that, while appearing correct at first look, are frequently incorrect upon closer inspection. The moderators explained that the main issue is that, despite the fact that ChatGPT's answers frequently contain errors, they frequently appear to be accurate and are simple to make.
'As a result, we require a decrease in the number of these posts [...] Therefore, it is now prohibited to use ChatGPT to publish to Stack Overflow. Even if a user's posts would ordinarily be permitted, punishments will be applied if it is determined that they used ChatGPT after the publication of this temporary policy. OpenAI's experimental chatbot ChatGPT is built using its GPT-3.5 autocomplete text generator.
The bot's web demo was made available last week, and users have since welcomed it with enthusiasm. The user interface of the bot encourages users to ask questions, and in response, provides impressive and fluid responses for a variety of queries, including writing and debugging lines of code, creating songs, poems, and TV scripts, among other things.
However, while many users have been impressed with ChatGPT's abilities, others have observed that it has a persistent propensity to produce true but implausible answers. If you ask the bot to write a biography of a famous person, for instance, it may confidently include inaccurate biographical information. OpenAI's experimental chatbot ChatGPT is built using its GPT-3.5 autocomplete text generator.
The bot's web demo was made available last week, and users have since welcomed it with enthusiasm. The user interface of the bot encourages users to ask questions, and in response, provides impressive and fluid responses for a variety of queries, including writing and debugging lines of code, creating songs, poems, and TV scripts, among other things.
However, while many users have been impressed with ChatGPT's abilities, others have observed that it has a persistent propensity to produce true but implausible answers. If you ask the bot to write a biography of a famous person, for instance, it may confidently include inaccurate biographical information.