Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned
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Obviously, given the subject matter, I had to let ChatGPT generate a summary for this:

The Meta Stack Overflow post discusses a policy decision regarding the use of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, on the platform. The key points include:

  1. Ban on Generative AI: The community has decided to prohibit the use of generative AI for answering questions on Stack Overflow. This is due to concerns about the quality and reliability of AI-generated content.
  1. Quality Control: The decision aims to maintain high standards for answers, as AI-generated responses may lack accuracy and context, potentially leading to misinformation.
  1. Community Feedback: The policy was influenced by feedback from the community, emphasizing the importance of human expertise in providing reliable answers.
  1. Future Considerations: The post suggests that while the current stance is a ban, the situation may be revisited in the future as the technology evolves.

Overall, the policy reflects a commitment to ensuring that the content on Stack Overflow remains trustworthy and valuable to its users.

  • @FeathercrownEnglish
    3•15 days ago

    Does the harm that does to the community not factor into your moral calculus?

    • JackbyDevEnglish
      3•15 days ago

      Stack Overflow only pretends to care about their community and I’m tired of contributing the greater good of the technical community at large (edit: by contributing to Stack Overflow). Stack Overflow has a track record of ignoring Meta. Why even have it if you’re not going to listen?

      • @FeathercrownEnglish
        1•15 days ago

        Ok, but why would you know that and then go harm the community yourself too?

        • JackbyDevEnglish
          1•15 days ago

          I’m not advocating for maliciously using AI generated content to make Stack Overflow worse, I’m just saying I feel no motivation to seek questions to answer there nor to waste my time posting good questions there that I research and find no duplicates of only for them to be closed.

          • @FeathercrownEnglish
            1•15 days ago

            Ah, I confused you with the person I had originally replied to

    • @[email protected]
      3•15 days ago

      I does factor that in and my answer is to abandon ship or mutiny. By contributing to their ecosystem you validate their sense of not having done anything wrong.

      As we have seen with reddit, the next step here is closing off API access and banning searchengines and crawlers from using the sites resources. At that point there is little value left in the platform just like with reddit.