Incident 413: Thousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow
Description: Thousands of incorrect answers produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT were submitted to Stack Overflow, which swamped the site's volunteer-based quality curation process and harmed users looking for correct answers.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Stack Overflow users and Stack Overflow.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
413
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-11-30
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
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meta.stackoverflow.com · 2022
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Use of ChatGPT generated text for content on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned.
This is a temporary policy intended to slow down the influx of answers and other content created with ChatGPT. What the final policy will be regarding the us…
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theverge.com · 2022
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Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
The site's mods said that the ban was temporary and that a final ruling woul…
analyticsindiamag.com · 2022
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Unfounded assumptions, bad advice, incorrect information—the biggest source of problems on the internet today is people blindly buying into hype. ChatGPT, which has taken the internet by the storm recently, seems to be making it a lot easie…
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