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The thing that makes me so sad about this: when I steal an answer from StackOverflow I always put a comment linking to where I got the answer. I could pretend that I do this because it's a good software maintenance practice. Truthfully, I only do it because it's the right thing to do. It's about professionalism and integrity.

Laundering human responses via a large language model not only makes it impossible to acknowledge SO contributors: it encourages people to think GPT figured these things out solely because it's simply so darn clever.

It doesn't help that SO's marketing is encouraging developers to not care about integrity or professionalism:

> provide OpenAI users and customers with the accurate and vetted data foundation that AI tools need to quickly find a solution to a problem so that technologists can stay focused on priority tasks.

Hey buddy, you got priority tasks to focus on. Just let the plagiarism robot do its thing.