Right now Stack Overflow moderators (myself included), have applied a momentary ban on ChatGPT on the positioning.
Use of ChatGPT generated textual content for posts on Stack Overflow is quickly banned.
This ban was picked up instantly by a number of expertise information retailers, together with ZDNet, TheVerge, and Vice.
It was additionally picked up by CNN, The New York Occasions, and the Washington Publish.
That is quite a lot of information protection.
The query that I need to reply is “Why?”. Tales and advertising from OpenAI, give the explanation why this new chatbot is a
“good factor”. With their examples, it definately seems that manner. However, in apply, it is not figuring out so effectively.
The responses that customers have been posting on Stack Overflow have a excessive charge of being incorrect. Usually, the neighborhood can deal with this, however the responses aren’t your normal small code snippet of a solution. As an alternative it’s a lengthy, detailed,
explaination that seems believable. However, it is flawed. Mixed with customers posting a number of solutions an hour, that is
quite a lot of content material that Stack Overflow reviewers (or worse, the handful of elected moderators) to undergo and decide if it is legitimate.
On the time the ban was applied, we would seen 1000’s of solutions generated by ChatGPT. On the one hand, that is spectacular
work on the ChatGPT AI itself. It may be troublesome to detect and is nice at holding a dialog. Alternatively,
and extra essential from Stack Overflow’s perspective, this is not serving to the consumer base. Hundreds of subtly flawed solutions is terrible.
It does not assist the consumer searching for assist, and it’ll in a short time destroy the belief that tens of millions of builders put within the website if
that is allowed to proceed.
I will admit that I am disenchanted that AI hasn’t reached the purpose the place it will probably do what ChatGPT appears to do. However, it is a step
ahead. Sadly, this step appears to have left a nasty style within the mouth of builders searching for assist past
a toy instance.
In the interim, ChatGPT is banned on Stack Overflow. The moderation group will proceed to work with the corporate to
make sure the neighborhood we’ve got volunteered to moderatate stays one of top of the range. Moreover, because the bigger Stack Alternate
community of web sites debates an identical ban, the Stack Overflow moderation group will be capable to present enter on our experiences.
