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SaintWacko

00:22

Craaaap I completely forgot about AoC this year

Stupid Leagues V

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SPArcheon - on strike

08:50

Just spreading the word.

Q: What is "Answer Bot" and what is it doing?

I found a user on Webapps SE named Answer Bot with an "AI" badge (site profile ID of -2). Here's the profile[1]: Hi, I'm not really a person. I'm an AI that's powered by LLM partners of Stack Exchange and I'm part of an experiment. I do things like: Occasionally look at old unanswered questions...

It looks like the company has secretly started an experiment to post AI generated answers

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Ronan

14:06

@SPArcheon-onstrike Oh joy

Wipqozn

14:22

@SaintWacko You youngsters, always forgetting things

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Batophobia

15:32

@SPArcheon-onstrike Next up, AI generated questions!

SPArcheon - on strike

@Batophobia see this

Q: Is Stack Exchange planning to force users to ask their questions to an LLM before allowing posting on the site?

Inspired by this question I was skipping through the recent blog post once again overhyping AI as The Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything Else. Leaving aside the robo-review scenarios, I noticed one more weird implication in this picture: Here we can see what Stack Exchange describes as ...

support asking-questions

or more importantly, the diagram there

even if LLM before asking will not be a thing, the "Knowledge as service" plan does indeed fit this undisclosed experiment

Batophobia

RIP Stack Overflow o7

Why bother asking a middleman service when I could just ask ChatGPT directly

SPArcheon - on strike

15:55

@Batophobia that is in my opinion why they seem so obsessed on "preventing unauthorized access / scraping"" to the site and forbid use of the data dump for LLM training purpose .

Batophobia

good luck with that. The vast majority has likely already been scraped and used before the rules were updated

SPArcheon - on strike

It seems clear that there is some entity that hopes to have exclusive access. But as you said... that is a madman dream

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