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by oneoff786 1248 days ago
Shrug. Precision seems like a low importance metric when suggesting interpretations of code for the purpose of debugging.
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It’s been said that the best way to get the correct answer from somebody is not to ask for it, but to instead give them an obviously incorrect answer. This annoys people enough for them to do the necessary research to come up with the correct answer, in order to prove the incorrect answer to be wrong. It might be that ChatGPT can be used to weaponize this tendency.

Maybe Stack Overflow should have an automatic pinned answer from ChatGPT (clearly labeled as such) on all questions, in order to goad people into providing the actually correct answer?

I feel the smugness in this post overlooks that fact that most of the time ChatGPT is going to be correct.
https://xkcd.com/810/

The value of Stack Overflow must be that it can provide correct answers, and the model of SO hinges on the assumption that this can only be provided by humans. If SO discovers that this is not the case, then so be it.