Timeline for Should this site take an official position on answers generated by ChatGPT?
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| Dec 12, 2022 at 4:00 | comment | added | cag51 Mod | Update: Seems like a pretty strong consensus; the resulting policy is available here. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 23:02 | comment | added | GoodDeeds | @AnonymousPhysicist Certainly, in the prompt one can tell it to write a question. One can even provide detailed requirements or specify that the question should be a good fit for Academia SE. It remains to be seen how effective SE will be in preventing such spam. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 22:30 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | I have a beginner question: Can the bot ask questions? | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 22:28 | answer | added | Anonymous Physicist | timeline score: -11 | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1600822527055609856 | ||
| Dec 8, 2022 at 11:37 | comment | added | Buffy | Zach at SMBC must read this site: smbc-comics.com/comic/themes | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 10:28 | comment | added | cag51 Mod | Just to underline the above point: flags are generally helpful to us; we'd rather people like you err on the side of raising the flag so we can monitor a situation, even if no immediate action is required. For flags on answers or questions, we can mark the flag helpful without taking any further action (and I think all 4 of us do this often). But it's true that flags on comments do not have this option: we either have to decline the flag or delete the comment. So that may help with strategizing your flagging record, if that's important to you. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 8:01 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano Mod | @Nobody If you see fishy posts, please by all means flag them. Flagging doesn't hurt user reputation, and for this kind of stuff we'll likely consider the flag helpful even if further investigation doesn't confirm the allegation. Notice that only comment flags cannot be marked helpful without doing nothing. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 7:28 | comment | added | Nobody | @MassimoOrtolano I understand we cannot discuss how to figure out the posts are AI-generated. My problem is that I just saw a couple of fishy posts which I am planning to flag. On the other hand, I want to keep my flagging records super good (I hate declined flags), So, please give me some advice. Better yet, please provide a convenient way to notify the mods without hurting the users' reputations. A suggestion, mods can dispute the flags, not decline them. | |
| Dec 7, 2022 at 22:46 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano Mod | @xLeitix For the moment, mods are not disclosing how these kind of posts are caught. See this meta post for the reason (note that the links reported there are mod-only). Anyway, there are mods and users, especially from Stack Overflow, who are putting a lot of effort to fight this phenomenon, and some of them flagged a few of our posts. | |
| Dec 7, 2022 at 21:49 | comment | added | Buffy | @xLeitix, it is a hard problem surely. But a policy and ways to flag suspected answers (in close and flag dialogs) might reduce the problem to a minimum, assuming people obey the rules, as most do. | |
| Dec 7, 2022 at 21:47 | comment | added | xLeitix | @MassimoOrtolano For my interest, how do you determine whether an answer is AI-generated? From what I have seen, ChatGPT produces text that looks substantially more coherent than many of the genuine answers, and especially questions, we get here. | |
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| Dec 6, 2022 at 17:51 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano Mod | We actually already deleted more than one AI-generated answer. | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 16:42 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Dec 6, 2022 at 15:53 | answer | added | Anton Menshov | timeline score: 34 | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 15:23 | comment | added | cag51 Mod | BTW, a network-wide ban has been proposed but not (yet) adopted. There is also some chatter across the meta network about how such bans might be enforced. | |
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| Dec 6, 2022 at 14:56 | answer | added | Jon Custer | timeline score: 26 | |
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