Re:Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods?
by version_five on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:50PM
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This is a great point. I think the research is "biased" to begin with, in that it feels like you could easily p-hack your way into a "chat gpt has degraded X" kind of paper if that's what you want to show. But with SO in particular, you're right that there are actually clear improvements that it makes as a competitor.
I can't think of a way, buy it would be interesting to see if there is a similar effect on Wikipedia contributions.
they should ask people that ask questions, not people passively looking for answers
the experience asking a question on stackexchange sites is horrible! each tag is its own community with edicts and customs you have no idea about which derail your path to actually getting an answer, the auto-moderation system is completely broken because it thinks your question should be replaced with one from 2013, or the human moderators unilaterally fix your question which then causes the auto-moderator to think its similar to the one from 2013 and unceremoniously replaces it
With chatgpt you dont need to prove anything about what you tried, you dont need a reputation score to do anything, you dont need to be a steward of every upvote for all eternity, you dont need to engage in meta discussion to get your post out of deletion, and it answers faster. You don't need to be told to ask a separate question if you have any followups, with all of the same gamble of problems.
its better, faster, and cheaper time wise
its not a direct comparison, chatgpt is more like a pair programmer. If stackoverflow had an adhoc pair programming live session you could hop into it would be a better comparison.