100 % Agree with the ban, Specially for Ask Ubuntu.

Here are some points I came up with against allowing ChatGPT answers:

• ChatGPT is not "Sentient" , it was trained on answers from forums like these.
• It was trained on outdated information before 2021.
• Inaccurate answers will cause more harm specially in these forums as we are dealing with operating systems.
• It is very overconfident spitting out wrong answers.
• It wont be able to help with/fix issues arising from suggested solution.
• "The model would not ask clarifying questions when the user provided an ambiguous query. Instead, our current models usually guess what the user intended" - https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

On the other hand.

There are 78,466 questions with no answers.

The community feels to be getting weaker with every passing day.

People often get discourage from trying out new distributions / switching to linux witnessing poor community support. I see new questions everyday made by new members who leave after getting none to little help.

I would suggest if a new user posts a relatively "simple/harmless" question that remains unanswered for a week there should be some automated response referring them to external resources such that people dont abandon the project altogether.

100 % Agree with the ban, Specially for Ask Ubuntu.

Here are some points I came up with against allowing ChatGPT answers:

• ChatGPT is not "Sentient" , it was trained on answers from forums like these.
• It was trained on outdated information before 2021.
• Inaccurate answers will cause more harm specially in these forums as we are dealing with operating systems.
• It is very overconfident spitting out wrong answers.
• It wont be able to help with/fix issues arising from suggested solution.
• "The model would not ask clarifying questions when the user provided an ambiguous query. Instead, our current models usually guess what the user intended" - https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

On the other hand.

There are 78,466 questions with no answers.

The community feels to be getting weaker with every passing day.

People often get discouraged from trying out new distributions / switching to Linux witnessing poor community support. I see new questions everyday made by new members who leave after getting none to little help.

I would suggest if a new user posts a relatively "simple/harmless" question that remains unanswered for a week there should be some automated response referring them to external resources such that people don't abandon the project altogether.