Use of ChatGPT generated text for content on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned. [link]
It’s expected, no surprise.
There are many issues with ChatGPT answers but for me the main issue has been that they look like they might be good answers, (the ones I have seen have been beautifully written), but relying as they do merely on a statistical method they can very, very easily be completely incorrect. [link]
Department of education ban.
New York City’s Department of Education announced a ban on the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT — which some have warned could inspire more student cheating — from its schools’ devices and networks. [link]
Some tools to detect ChatGPT generated text.
Top AI conference bans use of ChatGPT and AI language tools to write academic papers [link]
One of the world’s most prestigious machine learning conferences has banned authors from using AI tools like ChatGPT to write scientific papers, triggering a debate about the role of AI-generated text in academia.
Big discussion has been sparkled.
Generative AI, large language models, chatbots, etc. should be developed and used responsibly and intelligently. Progress cannot be stopped, but it should be analyzed and the negative impact eliminated.
But in a parallel universe..
Australian universities to return to ‘pen and paper’ exams after students caught using AI to write essays [link]