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9so you're ok to use ChatGPT in an answer provided it has the proper attributions?– Franck DernoncourtCommented Dec 5, 2022 at 16:28
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4If its garbage, we'd delete it anyway and suspend the user if there's a bunch of poor quality contributions but seems a more polite way to do it– Journeyman Geek ModCommented Dec 5, 2022 at 16:38
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4so you're ok to use ChatGPT in an answer provided it has the proper attributions and it's a correct answer?– Franck DernoncourtCommented Dec 5, 2022 at 16:39
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11and its verified to be a workable/correct answer.– Journeyman Geek ModCommented Dec 5, 2022 at 16:40
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6Ok then I think your answer and mine are similar.– Franck DernoncourtCommented Dec 5, 2022 at 16:41
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27@Franck You can't give proper attribution: ChatGPT doesn't identify its sources. And the text it emits may be derived from the work of a few authors or thousands (if not millions). The topic of AI plagiarism is mentioned in academia.stackexchange.com/q/191197 for– PM 2RingCommented Dec 5, 2022 at 17:21
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28My initial reaction to "I'd be tempted to start with longer suspensions" was that it might be too harsh but the fact is a) any user who does that must know exactly what he's doing, b) said user would at least suspect that doing so might be against the rules, and c) the user will have done that multiple times already as it's not easy to identify that behavior with one or two answers; in most cases, one needs a stream of AI-generated answers to spot the pattern. Based on that, I don't really think such punishment is too harsh.– 41686d6564Commented Dec 5, 2022 at 20:47
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2Exactly - that's the same line of thinking I had– Journeyman Geek ModCommented Dec 6, 2022 at 0:16
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8I fully support complete ban. Even if AI would be able to generate correct answers, then we could just ask AI instead. No need for posting such content on the network. We need to leave Stack Exchange for problems only people can solve. Anything else will not work in the long run and will cause more harm than good.– Resistance Is FutileCommented Dec 6, 2022 at 11:43
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2@ResistanceIsFutile "Even if AI would be able to generate correct answers, then we could just ask AI instead". No. Only true if AI is always correct.– Franck DernoncourtCommented Dec 6, 2022 at 21:04
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1@FranckDernoncourt Nothing is ever completely correct. If you could get excellent accuracy then you would probably first ask AI. Just like answers on SO are not always correct even some posted by experts.– Resistance Is FutileCommented Dec 6, 2022 at 21:06
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@PM2Ring good point, I just meant giving attribution to ChatGPT.– Franck DernoncourtCommented Dec 6, 2022 at 21:06
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1@FranckDernoncourt to be fair - the main advantage here is we can take a look, decide its crap and delete it faster.– Journeyman Geek ModCommented Dec 7, 2022 at 1:46
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3Well, posting nonsense is something commonsensically bad. It's grounds for potential account deletion. I don't think there's an argument for posting trash being acceptable in any way, even if it's plausible garbage, rather than the outcome of a cat walking all over the keyboard– Journeyman Geek ModCommented Dec 13, 2022 at 9:24
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1@Topcode I am not going to focus on rest of SE because some rules may be different on some sites. But idea behind SO was not creating duplicate of documentation that can be easily found elsewhere, though some duplication will always exist. Idea was creating high quality repository of knowledge and answers to common (or not so common) questions related to programming. So when you have a problem you can easily find solution because someone before already had that problem and it was solved on SO.– Resistance Is FutileCommented Dec 14, 2022 at 13:10
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