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ChatGPT was five days old. Stack Overflow's moderators banned answers written with it, in a policy statement headed simply "ChatGPT is banned", on the grounds that the answers were plausible enough to post and wrong often enough to be worse than nothing, and that checking them was falling on volunteers. It is the earliest institutional response to generative AI anywhere and the argument has not changed since: the cost of a confident wrong answer is not borne by the person who generated it. Three years later the same argument closed curl's bug bounty. Stack Overflow's own question volume has fallen sharply over the period, which is the part nobody at the time predicted.
Stack Overflow, in The Register
The average rate of getting correct answers from ChatGPT is too low.
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