Questions tagged [generative-ai]
For questions about generative AI as it pertains to the Stack Exchange network. Use this tag if you're discussing the policy around posting generative AI on the site, or for questions about Stack Exchange's AI integrations.
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Is it OK to ask Ai to improve the pacing, grammar, and language use of your question? [duplicate]
I'm not saying that I did. You will get me to admit to nothing, but is asking an AI to improve the language use of a question you wish to ask a problem or not? It at the very least spares someone the ...
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Is "Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology" an appropriate title to feature?
Currently Stack Exchange is featuring an episode of their podcast titled "Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology" on the Stack Overflow blog.
Is this really an appropriate title for a ...
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Stop advising that companies train language models on our work
From the Stack Overflow Data Licensing page:
How can I use Stack Overflow data?
In general, companies use question-and-answer data like Stack Overflow’s to train and fine-tune both LLMs and SLMs; ...
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Allow people to opt out of showing AI Assist on the homepage
Currently, the AI Assist box is seated in a loud-and-proud location at the top of the home page on Stack Overflow.
I imagine that there might be a few users who didn't ask for this feature and don't ...
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AI Assist is now available on Stack Overflow
Today (December 2, 2025), AI Assist’s conversational search and discovery experience is now fully integrated into Stack Overflow. AI Assist continues to provide learners with ways to understand ...
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stackoverflow.ai - rebuilt for attribution
Update: Sept 24, 2025
We have released various improvements and updates today:
stackoverflow.ai now uses the most recent model to improve accuracy where SO & SE don't have valid answers.
Improved ...
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Should I refrain from frivolous use of Stackoverflow.AI?
Sometimes I like to "explore" what I can and can't do with AI. E.g., I remember starting a conversation with "la la la" (or something like this) with ChatGPT, then we started ...
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The phrasing "They do not use the output for training their machine learning models using the output" seems problematic
The stackoverflow.ai Terms of Use has a couple of weird phrasings, which appear to be because of some editing issue. This is in the context of using third-party services (notably OpenAI):
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Will Artificial intelligence kill Stack Exchange sites? [duplicate]
In the past, people searched for help on Stack Exchange sites. Since AI is training using the information from these Q&A Pages, and people are asking AI apps directly, are Stack Exchange sites ...
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How do I know in which forum I should post my question about Autodesk Fusion 360? [duplicate]
How does one know in which forum one should post its questions?
When I look into the list of subsites I think most questions about engineering or computer whatever should have its ad hoc site.
I have ...
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Labs experiment launch: stackoverflow.ai
UPDATE - July 9, 2025
This week we’ve updated stackoverflow.ai with the following new functionality and fixes:
Related content suggestions are more relevant and dynamically
re-ranked during ...
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Should LLMs that rely on SE content credit the authors? [closed]
I think most people here are aware just how much SE content is responsible for high quality answers LLMs sometimes provide. This fact edged popular consciousness, but seems to be largely forgotten and ...
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Concluding the Answer Assistant experiment
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, we ended the Answer Assistant experiment on the Stack Exchange sites where it was running - Raspberry Pi, Arts & Crafts, and User Experience.
We greatly appreciate the ...
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What could be good uses of AI in the Stack Exchange setting?
Anyone who's been paying attention to MSE in recent years must be aware that the use of AI on the network has been a controversial topic. Many sites have consensus to ban AI-generated content ...
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As of 2025, what’s the official policy on using machine translation to supplement answers?
Imagine someone on Politics.SE asks, "What policies were proposed by the Chinese government in their 2025 speech?" Suppose I find an official policy document in Mandarin that perfectly ...
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