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Blog post: CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
We have the domain focus and community trust to responsibly deploy generative AI
Citation needed
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
It is precisely this symbiotic relationship between humans and AI that ensures the ongoing relevance of community-driven platforms like Stack Overflow.
This is obviously not correct!
How can somebody ...
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Blog post: CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
I've probably put in hundreds of hours of unpaid, and admittedly often unsolicited work into this place.
We continue to evolve as an organization, focusing on a path to profitability in addition to ...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
I am not here to debug ChatGPT.
I am not here to debug generative LLMs in general.
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Blog post: CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
I also posted this as a comment on the blog, pending moderation:
Hi Prashanth, you have not mentioned the recent policy change also reported by your VP of Community and broadly criticized by the ...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
After noticing some worrisome exchanges about "SE is going to use generated content" in the chat rooms, I came here to verify those rumors and to determine concretely what the actual "...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
Please do not integrate this algorithm into the site.
It plagiarizes
The algorithm will reproduce whole sections of one to one content without citation nor warning. It then strings these sections ...
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Blog post: CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
We continue to evolve as an organization, focusing on a path to profitability in addition to navigating a dynamic external market. Part of this evolution led us to make the difficult decision to ...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
Quite simply, if people want to use some kind of AI assistance to answer their questions quickly, then they can use those.
If they want an actual human, often expert, to answer their questions, they ...
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Will SE seek and act on community input in developing OverflowAI?
I wouldn't hold my breath.
This push to AI has been pockmarked with the declaration of "community inclusion" and acceptance, ever since the first blog post the CEO put up about this went ...
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Blog post: CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
This is the second blog post where CEO talks about AI and Community.
It is beyond obvious that AI is used as a buzzword, because AI is a hot topic at the moment. Combined with the other recent actions,...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
Please, no. AI is not remotely close to any real "artificial intelligence" (in the literal sense) these days, and it does not belong as a contributor on SO/SE sites in any shape or form at ...
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But most significantly, we accelerated our AI efforts internally and look forward to sharing more this summer.
I'm just confused. The community is trying to ban AI, so why is the org pushing for AI?
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AFAIK, this blog post wasn't also posted to Meta, so I'm starting a question for my feedback.
In the last quarter of our fiscal year [...] that meant announcing the availability of Stack Overflow for ...
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Let's get something straight: this is just another big-tech (or, in this case, big-tech wannabe) jumping on the bandwagon. And jumping on the bandwagon usually doesn't lead to good long-term decisions....
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This paragraph surprised me given the development of the title suggestion feature, which I strongly suspect is built off a third party LLM:
We want to be able to continue to invest back into our ...
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Does the new "Do large language models know what they are talking about?" post say that GenAI is bad?
I don't interpret it as saying "GenAI is bad". It's saying the kinda obvious thing - "GenAI needs you to validate its output."
I would agree with you that this conflicts with the ...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
Let me try to synthesize an analysis of some possible interpretations and my (and I expect, the broader community's) attitude to these variations.
"Yikes, no!"
Interpretation: "We will ...
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Who is the original artist of the comic on the blog post "Do large language models know what they are talking about?"
It was posted in the r/comics subreddit by u/PLutonium273 on February 2, 2023 under the title [OC] Magic coding. Taking the "OC" at face value, u/PLutonium273 would presumably be the ...
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Blog post: CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
After reading that, it sure feels like the Teams communities trump this one, despite the fact that this is the one that backbones curation across the network and effectively allows it to function.
I ...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
There are several things that large language models and their ilk can be useful for in the context of Stack Exchange. Let me list some of them:
Recommending titles for the questions. Humans are very ...
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Are Stack Exchange blog articles also under Creative Common license?
A quick look around the page says "© 2023 All Rights Reserved." I cannot find any mentions of the blog being CC licenced, so it looks like a copyright violation to me, though I'm unsure if ...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
This is less about the content of the blog post and more about what SE should do from preventing this from backfiring. I'm a little surprised that nobody's explicitly put this out yet, considering ...
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Will SE seek and act on community input in developing OverflowAI?
If by community input you mean to use Meta Stack Exchange input, it's possible but might not have the weight we might be expecting.
I have learned that we are no longer "The Community". We ...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
And just who is supposed to review and moderate all of the crap AI content posted by users farming for no-effort reputation, in order to weed out the worryingly low percentage of correct answers from ...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
Things I look forward to (then a question)
1. Finding citeable answers faster with ML guidance
With a ML-driven chatbot, or similar interface, I can imagine it will be easier to find human-written ...
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Why is Jeff Atwood's title "Co-Founder (Former)" on The Overflow blog?
Following the August 2023 Stack Exchange blog redesign, the co-founder formerly known as "Co-founder (former)" now appears as:
Jeff Atwood
Co-founder
Former staff
His "Coding Horror&...
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
If new AI systems make it possible to create software simply by chatting with a computer, my prediction is that, far from the job of programmer disappearing, we’ll end up with millions of new software ...
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Blog post redirects without the /dd/ in the URL are broken
Great find; I was unaware of that legacy URL format. Those URLs should be restored now.
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