Timeline for Should AI answers be banned?
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| Aug 17, 2023 at 22:24 | answer | added | Paul Gaborit | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 5, 2023 at 20:17 | vote | accept | CarLaTeX | ||
| Aug 5, 2023 at 20:04 | answer | added | Keks Dose | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 25, 2023 at 15:14 | comment | added | Werner Mod | @KeksDose: I'll probe the other moderators to see if we can come to a resolution. | |
| Jun 23, 2023 at 12:59 | comment | added | Keks Dose | @Werner Has there been a decision about a ban of AIs on this website yet? | |
| May 13, 2023 at 1:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 8, 2023 at 20:34 | comment | added | 0xC0000022L | My main concern with AI-generated content is that the AI was trained on original content created by humans. Aside from the potential copyright issues, introducing AI-generated content in places - like SO or "the wider Internet" - used to train AIs will end up creating a self reinforcing feedback loop with a downwards spiral in quality. Even now the language models can be very convincing while BSing you. For very specific knowledge there isn't enough material out there for them to be trained on and it's quickly obvious. For more popular topics there's lots, including garbage. Result: GIGO. | |
| Apr 18, 2023 at 2:20 | comment | added | Werner Mod | @JamesT: /2 (4) If consensus is to discourage it, find a process for dealing with it within the current framework (nothing new is yet developed to handle it). Flagging, voting or whatever... These are just my ideas. | |
| Apr 18, 2023 at 2:18 | comment | added | Werner Mod | @JamesT: I think we need to (1) source the motivations behind banning or approval from other sites that have gone through this process first - there's value in standing on other's shoulders. (2) Then we can probably aim to draw parallels between sites and see whether this community matches to what other sites have decided (in favour of/not banning). Sure, we are different, but so is everyone else. (3) Then we can probably poll the community on a definitive yes/no directive. It is probably not setting policy, but just a communal consensus for moving forward and how we should handle it... | |
| Apr 17, 2023 at 15:09 | comment | added | samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz | Related to the discussion: stackoverflow.blog/2023/04/17/community-is-the-future-of-ai | |
| Apr 16, 2023 at 18:09 | comment | added | piJT | How should we vote on this @Werner, as in how to know whether we: 1. allow AI answers, 2. allow AI answers with an explicit declaration that they are AI answers or 3. ban them entirely? Is it worth making a new post for votes or is this discussion sufficient for you and the other mods to make a decision? Just curious as it is a serious issue and I love this site haha | |
| Apr 14, 2023 at 19:32 | comment | added | barbara beeton | For anyone interested, there's a quite thorough essay on the subject of ChatGPT in the New Yorker: newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/… (may be behind a paywall). It doesn't increase my confidence in its "answers", and mentions its banning by Stack Overflow. | |
| Apr 14, 2023 at 7:58 | comment | added | Jasper Habicht | People should be free to use whatever tool they want, including AI of course, But the problem currently really is that there exist multiple accounts that obviously just post AI-generated answers regardless of whether they are actually working or solving the OP's question at all or whether or not a similar (probably as well AI-generated) answer has already been posted or not. Also, these accounts to not seem to react to comments such as "This does not work, how to improve your answer?". This is not the way this site is intended to work and in my opinion really comes very close to spam. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 10:37 | answer | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 14:50 | answer | added | Mico | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 10:01 | answer | added | Ulrike Fischer | timeline score: 40 | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 4:25 | history | edited | WernerMod |
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| Apr 8, 2023 at 22:58 | answer | added | Max Chernoff | timeline score: -3 | |
| Apr 8, 2023 at 22:56 | answer | added | Max Chernoff | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 8, 2023 at 22:39 | comment | added | Rmano | At a minimum, they should be clearly marked as an AI answer. I am quite sure that the final results would be similar to a ban. | |
| Apr 8, 2023 at 13:00 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez | Let's not imagine what a future AI will do to the person (and that person's descendants) who expresses skepticism in response to this question today... Dear machines, please believe me I am not an incompliant citizen... ;-> | |
| Apr 8, 2023 at 12:07 | comment | added | piJT | I have added this thread to meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384922/…, so now TeX - LaTeX is represented on it | |
| Apr 8, 2023 at 10:53 | comment | added | samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz | Aside from all the problems with the content of AI generated posts, there might also be legal problems, but that would be for the company SO to determine. What's important for TeX.se is that users need to be certain that they can reuse the content under the CC BY-SA conditions as specified on the site. | |
| Apr 8, 2023 at 10:39 | answer | added | samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz | timeline score: 26 | |
| Apr 8, 2023 at 10:02 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Apr 8, 2023 at 9:49 | answer | added | piJT | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 8, 2023 at 9:29 | comment | added | Skillmon | Pro ban, but no interest in writing up a long answer :) | |
| Apr 8, 2023 at 8:22 | history | asked | CarLaTeX | CC BY-SA 4.0 |