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Thousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow

Thousands of incorrect answers produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT were submitted to Stack Overflow, which swamped the site's volunteer-based quality curation process and harmed users looking for correct answers.

Date it happened
2022-11-30
Organisation involved
OpenAI
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Thousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow — Wayward Fowl