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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. has announced a network-wide policy for AI content

It is a good time to be completely candid: We worked hard to get a solid policy in place for the torrent of AI/LLM material that was appearing on Ask Ubuntu. And by 'we' I mean the elected and ...
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. has announced a network-wide policy for AI content

We're living in interesting times. In my understanding, the reason we don't want AI-generated content is that it's garbage - the bot doesn't know the answer to the question, it only knows how to ...
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. has announced a network-wide policy for AI content

In my understanding, the reason we don't want AI-generated content is that it's garbage - the bot doesn't know the answer to the question, it only knows how to produce answerlike text. We can delete ...
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how come answers and questions are banned without feedback

I think it's entirely fair that you get some feedback, and that should really be handled at the point that your posts are being moderated. I think sometimes people think that an action is so very ...
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Question about asking general questions

I personally agree with the feedback you have received regarding your question. The style of Ask Ubuntu (or any other Stack Exchange site) is a Q&A where a question should be about a specific ...
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Should this tag be put into [storage]? Or not?

I don't think that it's a bad tag. Being generic is not necessarily a bad thing and not enough reason to remove it. The fact that there are other tags that may be more specific is also not a good ...
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. has announced a network-wide policy for AI content

overapplication of suspensions for AI-generated content may be turning away a large number of legitimate contributors to the site The new owner does not seem to understand that the value of the these ...
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how come answers and questions are banned without feedback

There are no specifics in your question so we can only give you general information. There are several help page topics that go into reasons why questions and answers would be closed or deleted: What ...
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Announcement: AI-generated content is now permanently banned on Ask Ubuntu

Basically I concur. ChatGPT has been proven to be unreliable, thus a ban is justified. However I've tested some code writing and was surprised that it worked. I just wonder how we want to figure out ...
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