ChatGPT and AI could completely replace the need for StackOverflow for coders as long as it constantly told me my question was irrelevant, had already been answered, and berated me for not doing my own research first and then downvoted me.
@grumpygamer "haha sick burn on AIs - wait a minute..."
@grumpygamer Now I want to train my own language model only on stackoverflow.
@weston @grumpygamer actually I'm fairly confident ChatGPT was.
@grumpygamer And if it detected someone trying to actually answer your question, it would go after them, too!
@grumpygamer It also needs to give you a wrong/unsafe answ... ah, wait, hold on
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A huge giveaway to it being human or not!- have you seen how polite #ChatGPT is? Makes me double nervous ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
@grumpygamer somebody made post like this already IDIOT ๐Ÿ‘Ž
@pipivovott it didn't take long for Mastodon to descend into Twitter-like hate.
@stephensmith the Mastodonโ„ข was made for hate actually. ive read about it recently
@grumpygamer am I the only one who never had to ask questions on #stackoverflow.
@dragnucs @grumpygamer I always assume the answer is either in there already, or not known from humankind at all.
@dragnucs @grumpygamer If I can't find something close enough, I just design around my own limitations than have to deal with that. The last time I tried talking to programmers for help for my personal project I had to spend more time justifying what I was doing at all than being told what I might have to look up, so I just figure it out myself and not waste the time.

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people criticizing ai conveniently forget that human beings are notoriously unreliable as well

@grumpygamer Bing's AI is getting close to that
@grumpygamer Seriously, why are engineers such jerks sometimes?
@grumpygamer Bing search is headed that way, it seems.
@grumpygamer thatโ€™s a simple script to make no need for a bigot ๐Ÿ™ƒ
@grumpygamer Bonus points if ChatGPT refers you to an answer from 10 years ago that was aimed at Java 6 that doesn't even work in Java 17 and for which Java 17 provides simple and safe functionality without all the poking into Java 6 internals that was required ten years ago. It then becomes indistinguishable from StackOverflow :).
@grumpygamer Wow. I haven't used stack overflow, but it's good to know some internet traditions will never go out of style
@grumpygamer I do dislike when folks on stackoverflow are needlessly rude. Been there since before the official opening and that category of behavior sucks.
@grumpygamer I don't know. I'd miss stack overflow finding me a clear, concise answer that stopped being correct about nine years and 14 versions ago.
@grumpygamer And what if ChatGPT trained their AI partially with answers from StackOverflow?
@Dennisdewit I'm sure they do. If it's publicly on the internet, it's used for training.
@grumpygamer @ada_shen you forgot not suitable for stack overflow. Too general,
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@grumpygamer I don't know why I would want to work with ChatGPT? I love the "old fashioned" way of using my brain and manually looking for help in stackoverflow.
@grumpygamer yep.
AI will never berate you like that.
@grumpygamer ok but look, if you had posted no code, added only irrelevant tags that nobody monitors, used the most generic question title you could come up with, and stressed multiple times how far over your head this problem is, then you would've gotten at least 3 upvotes!
@grumpygamer it should also tell you that you are asking the wrong question, please don't do that, use this other approach that requires a full refactor of your code instead
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In that case, the Bing version of ChatGPT might be what you're looking for. ๐Ÿ˜œ