Timeline for Ban ChatGPT and AI-generated answers on Ask Ubuntu?
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| Dec 27, 2022 at 17:01 | comment | added | Levente | @C.S.Cameron I appreciate the indication of your awareness regarding all those issues that you listed, and I agree on that point. However, looking at your answer above, I can reassure you that it does come off with a clearly pejorative overtone. I for one believe that when you wrote that, you were in that mood, and argued accordingly. Of course, with time and feedback, your opinion and argument got refined. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 5:02 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @andrew.46: I don't consider "Luddite" a pejorative term in this day and age. Especially when it comes to Nuclear Weapons, Bitcoin, Designer Drugs, Junk Food, Ransomware, Surveillance, Cell Phones etc, etc. I think "Luddite" is only a bad word to those who think caution of the unknown is evil. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 3:47 | comment | added | andrew.46 Mod | @C.S.Cameron Side note: Interestingly enough 'Luddites' was not always a pejorative term. The original Luddites were simply trying to protect their way of life and their livelihoods as the Industrial Revolution swept all before it. The Industrial Revolution was always a double edged sword: so too with ChatGPT which has the potential to destroy some things while at the same time improving other things... | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 9:23 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | Sound to me that the ban andrew.46 mentions applies to anybody caught using AI generated answers, not just spammers. | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 9:15 | comment | added | muru | @C.S.Cameron "The punishment of those that use ChatGPT for good and those that use it for evil. As severe as the punishments that andrew.46 refers to. – C.S.Cameron 4 hours ago" | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 9:11 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @muru: Which conclusion was that? | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 6:18 | comment | added | muru | @C.S.Cameron why would that be the case? How did you come to that conclusion? | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 5:35 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @andrew.46: My writing is probably enough proof that some of us need something like ChatGPT. I guess I just don't know the difference between punishment and a Mod's simple notification that all is not well, especially if I get a 7 day Suspension for subsequent occurrence. 8<) | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 5:08 | comment | added | andrew.46 Mod | @C.S.Cameron I would not use the term 'punishment' as such. Suspension is rather a mandatory period of reflection with the period of suspension time proportionate to the severity of the infraction. Mod email is a simple notification that all is not well... | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 4:48 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @muru: The punishment of those that use ChatGPT for good and those that use it for evil. As severe as the punishments that andrew.46 refers to. | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 14:29 | comment | added | muru | @C.S.Cameron whose? As severe as what? | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 14:15 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @muru: But their punishment will be just as severe. | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 14:12 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | I think you need a bot to catch a bot, (as the old saying goes). | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 13:15 | comment | added | muru | However, problems of detection don't and shouldn't prevent us from enacting a policy to ban such zero-effort spam. | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 13:14 | comment | added | muru | @ArturMeinild that is the tricky part, admittedly. you can post the same question and see if it generates similar correct-looking but actually incorrect BS. And the ones that make me suspicious of being generated so far (across users and sites) have this odd pattern of repeating the same thing in different words multiple times in the same answer. | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 13:08 | comment | added | Artur Meinild | @muru and how do you verify those answers have been generated with ChatGPT? | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 13:07 | comment | added | muru | I'm certain there has already been one such case on Unix & Linux and possibly one more going on right now. | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 13:06 | comment | added | muru | I think you and @ArturMeinild are both missing what's actually happening. The people and posts we're talking of banning aren't those who're using ChatGPT for spell-checking or polishing answers they wrote themselves. They're posting the questions to ChatGPT and copy-pasting the generated answer wholesale here without any attempt whatsoever to verify if the answer is correct. And while users certainly generate OK-looking BS on their own, ChatGPT enables to generate this BS fast enough to hit any and all rate limits. And worse, ChatGPT is quite good at generating correct-looking BS | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 12:35 | comment | added | Artur Meinild | I think I agree here - also, how would you ever know if a good and correct answer was run through ChatGPT? | |
| Dec 19, 2022 at 9:12 | history | edited | C.S.Cameron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2022 at 6:31 | history | answered | C.S.Cameron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |