A comment to one of my answers:
This was a really creative way to circumvent the problem. Bing GPT gave me the exact text that you wrote here(i searched and came here to give you the very well deserved upvote). I think that BING GPT is damaging, since people will not actually come to S.O. to view your answer, upvote or interact with S.O. in a meaningful way.
—Chandradhar KonetiMultiple conditions in switch case?
If "Bing GPT" or any other "nonsense with superpowers" out there is giving the exact text of a Stack Overflow post without an attribution, isn't this some sort of violation of some sort of copyright?
So, apparently people are picking up the habit of asking A.I. oracles for answers instead of coming to Stack Overflow. I think I have noticed a recent severe reduction in the number of upvotes I am receiving on popular, old answers of mine. It is even possible that this can be seen in reputation graphs. Here is mine:
Note that the line has started following a noticeably less steep slope since some unknown moment in 2023.
When I once tried asking ChatGPT a programming question, it gave me an answer that was surprisingly — no, let me reword this —astonishingly close to what I was asking for, and it almost worked, but working code is like pregnancy: there is no such thing as "almost pregnant"; code either works, or it doesn't. So, my experiment led me to the conclusion that A.I. is not really damaging to Stack Overflow. However, verbatim copying of code, especially without attribution, as the comment above attests, can definitely be damaging.
Are there any plans to do anything about this?
Can anything be done about this?
