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203 points| jshobrook | 3 years ago |stackoverflow.gg

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motoxpro|3 years ago

Man. What an absolute GENIUS way to get people to not post ChatGPT answers. Just put them there from there from the start. "Burn the boats"

rvnx|3 years ago

The main point of answering to StackOverflow questions is to earn points, points that you can show on your CV :)

"Top StackOverflow expert on XX", so the incentive is still there.

One solution to spam could be to keep the voting system, but not publicly reward users with points (like on HN).

dustyharddrive|3 years ago

GPT output isn’t deterministic though?

noduerme|3 years ago

I didn't install it. What's the scam here?

klyrs|3 years ago

Complete the loop. Make another one that generates coding questions.

Edit: come to think of it a Markov generator would probably be better on the question end so the hallucinated answers have more work to do.

balls187|3 years ago

One that makes stack-exchange sites.

herpderperator|3 years ago

I've asked this before, but is having a domain name with someone else's business name in it allowed? The answer I was given last time was you can buy it it but you might not get to keep it. Still, I can't help but think it would be inevitable legal trouble.

slyall|3 years ago

100% chance that stackoverflow will be sending nasty notes to the author (who appears to live in the US). 100% chance he'll have to take it down or change the name.

You really can't use the exact name of the people you are cloning. Even something like "stackrobot" would risky. Safest thing is to not use any words from the original product.

nkozyra|3 years ago

On the other hand, it's a great way to get a contact at SO, assuming anyone other than lawyers finds out about it.

nonethewiser|3 years ago

Yeah this definitely seems like some sort of infringement. Or at least likely to attract the concern of SO.

renonce|3 years ago

The owner of a simple hobby project like this, without SEO or sign-in or whatsoever, probably don’t need to care so much to protect his domain. If StackOverflow asks for his domain he can just give it away and set up the site at a new domain name.

primitivesuave|3 years ago

If they have the motivation/resources to go through the process, no- even a branding like “staqoverflow” would be infringement if they engage in the same type of activity as the trademark registration.

quickthrower2|3 years ago

Complicated question because it os trademark law. “AppleBakeryChicago” probably doesn’t have to worry about Apple Inc suing them. In the case of this site they should be worried.

dubcanada|3 years ago

Simple answer is no. They will lose the domain very fast.

andsoitis|3 years ago

they should rename their project to stackunderflow

idkwhoiam|3 years ago

What you're saying is every business name needs to be unique world-wide

iKlsR|3 years ago

There are a lot of soft clones of SO that you encounter at times with the exact same questions and answers in a crappier display format. Missed opportunity to whoever copped https://stackgpt.com, I foresee something like that coming eventually.

slenk|3 years ago

I hope no one actually trusts that for real answers, just based on what we've seen it try to do already.

oefrha|3 years ago

Lol just yesterday I saw an eight year old answer on SO neatly solving my problem, except the API was hallucinated. Humans have been hallucinating APIs for far longer.

tjbiddle|3 years ago

Whether it's AI generated, or some random schlep on Stack Overflow - Don't trust the answer without reviewing. Amateurs run code they don't understand.

nonethewiser|3 years ago

I hope no one blindly trusts answers from strangers on the internet.

TheDudeMan|3 years ago

Is this a joke or meant to be a useful tool?

Part of the challenge of StackOverflow is finding the question that matches your situation. But that is a pointless act with ChatGPT -- just ask it your exact question. Duplicates be damned.

Jipazgqmnm|3 years ago

Additionally such actions contribute to the situation of being always over capacity.

llagerlof|3 years ago

Interesting addon. Saves time. Is it possible to make it NOT autostart when opening a question, like adding a button "Ask GPT" or something.

auditor_3d|3 years ago

Every answer is “this is covered in another post. Duplicate.”

demivoleegaston|3 years ago

The upvotes/downvotes of the answers generated by CHATGPT can be a useful reinforcement mechanism

sdfhbdf|3 years ago

Is there a one for LeetCode?

ab-dm|3 years ago

Next step is to get the ChatGPT clones/alternatives to post alternative answers and let them all upvote the best one.

CatWChainsaw|3 years ago

No, next step is to get the clones/alts arguing with ChatGPT in SO-tone in order to complete the circle.

bsenftner|3 years ago

Slight off topic question: this is a browser addon too; does being installed as a browser addon enable any security risks? Do browser addons/extensions get access to all browser traffic?

I see various software as browser addons/extensions... is that a security loophole?

speculator|3 years ago

They can get access to all browser traffic if they're configured to. They can also be configured for activation only on specific sites. It really depends.

hobabaObama|3 years ago

I tried installing the chrome extension but it kept complaining about login. I am already logged into my chat gpt account.

ilt|3 years ago

Yeah, it seems like it has stopped working.

gailees|3 years ago

How does this answer questions that haven’t been answered yet?

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF|3 years ago

With confident bullshit or an explanation that the question is inappropriate.

Seriously, I think it means questions which don’t yet have community answers.

ChrisMarshallNY|3 years ago

It won’t truly match the experience, unless it can inject veiled insults into the answers. /s

matsemann|3 years ago

I don't get this hate-boner HN has for SO. Have you tried being active there? It's super easy to not have your question closed, just do the minimum amount of effort. And if you're active, you'll see the thousands of similar questions arrive every day. If you're active in the review queues, you will see all the spam, broken answers, non-SO fitting questions etc. people churn out.

I see people complain about how their "well researched and well articulated question got closed" all the time, but when prompted no one every actually provides a link to their question. Which makes me believe it actually just was a low effort noisy question after all..

If anything, HN is much more snarky, just look at the comments on anything here.

emodendroket|3 years ago

Everybody got what they wanted and it’s much “nicer” now (it won’t even let you comment “what have you tried?” anymore, for instance). Wouldn’t you know it, the front page is now full of low-quality, low-effort questions.

dpkirchner|3 years ago

Please share more or less details, include more or less code, and fix your formatting. Btw. I won't be around when you do, byeeee!

jshobrook|3 years ago

Thinking of adding an "arrogance" mode

pharmakom|3 years ago

Despite getting a useful answer your question was close for not rigidly adhering to site guidelines.

jjallen|3 years ago

And close or refuse to answer questions after quickly skimming them claiming that they are duplicated but actually aren’t.

brap|3 years ago

It should close and mark your question as a duplicate of something unrelated.

personjerry|3 years ago

Why would I install this? Why wouldn't I just ask ChatGPT my questions?

mrleinad|3 years ago

Because maybe someone else already did, and you found the post, but there's no answer yet

sam_goody|3 years ago

Why is this be a plugin?

(And, while I wouldn't ever install this, good to see that FF is still on the charts)

TT-392|3 years ago

This just feels like the wrong way around, I go to stackoverflow for stuff chatgpt can't answer. If anything, the right tool would be something which turns chatgpt threads into a stackoverflow question. (I don't actually think that is a good idea, just that it would make more sense)

quickthrower2|3 years ago

Stack overflow gives you more than the answer, it gives you multiple answers for variations on what the OP wanted and therefore more options to try out. I guess this is useful when there are zero options provided or only crappy ones.

devlife|3 years ago

The video shows an answer being written out using some sort of animation technique to give it a dramatic effect. Looks gimmicky.

meghan_rain|3 years ago

guys... should we tell him?