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In very simple terms, this feels like you're protecting Stack Overflow while throwing the rest of the network below a bus and letting it get run over. Without clear policy, terrible low quality AI generated content will flood the sites, eventually bringing them down. And I really don't like that. It's sad, and I see it a terrible mistake.
– Shadow Wizard
Commented Dec 20, 2022 at 7:02
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@ShadowWizardChasingStars Isn't Slate saying that in fact, ChatGPT-generated content isn't actually flooding non-SO sites?
– Adám
Commented Dec 20, 2022 at 7:22
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@Adám perhaps it's not flooding them now, but seeing there is no policy against it, and seeing a clear request to ban it officially declined, I'm 100% sure people will start doing exactly that at some point. It's easy rep.
– Shadow Wizard
Commented Dec 20, 2022 at 7:30
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@ShadowWizardChasingStars But they only declined to ban it now. They promise to reevaluate this decision in the future, if the circumstances warrant it. So if people start doing it (as you are so sure they will do), further actions may be taken.
– Adám
Commented Dec 20, 2022 at 7:51
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@Shadow If a community is experiencing a serious disruption in their ability to manage content quality, we will happily support that community using the tools we have at our disposal. Rest assured, the plan here is not to throw network sites to the dogs. Rather, that sites need to develop their own guidance specific to how GPT and language learning models are misused in their communities - policies we plan to help support. Overall, though, the median daily volume is very, very low on all ~180 non-SO network sites & decreasing. And I'm monitoring that situation actively for unwanted changes.
– Slate StaffMod
Commented Dec 20, 2022 at 8:23
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@ShadowWizardChasingStars: If users are already unmotivated to try & prevent low-quality AI-generated content's flooding their site, then it's hard to imagine how the announcement of any network-wide policy will spur them into action. And I doubt the people posting this rubbish are paying any attention to policies.
– Scortchi - Reinstate Monica
Commented Dec 21, 2022 at 17:04
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@ShadowTheSpringWizard No; Stack Overflow is protecting Stack Overflow, because the ban arose out of community consensus there. As a Stack Overflow user, the process is that I flag suspected ChatGPT content via the normal flagging mechanism, then a Stack Overflow mod acts on that like any other flag. Each other Stack site is free to follow the same process and come to the same conclusions individually.
– Karl Knechtel
Commented Mar 27, 2023 at 18:43
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Is this officially endorsed by StackExchange? pipedream.com/apps/stack-exchange/integrations/openai
– Peregrino69
Commented Mar 31, 2023 at 3:40

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