Stack Overflow prohibits use of ChatGPT AI tool for replies

Stack Overflow prohibits the use of text generator ChatGPT for site replies. According to the site, the answers are too often incorrect, while users may think that the answers are correct.

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This is a temporary policy says StackOverflow. The programming questions and answers site says it’s still considering a policy for the future, but has decided for now to view answers from ChatGPT as breaking the rules. Thousands of replies have recently been posted using the tool.

Stack Overflow claims that the answers generated by the tool look plausible, but often turn out to be unusable or correct in practice. The site does not mention percentages. ChatGPT is a tool to generate a piece of text from a prompt. The tool uses texts that have previously appeared online. On the ChatGPT site OpenAI contains a question-answer model about a piece of code as an example of a conversation in which the tool can add value.