alt Hacker NewsI don't know what's worse:
1. Asking a question which could be answered by an AI
2. Pasting an AI response to something
If 1 is fair game, I'd say 2 is too.
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> Asking a question which could be answered by an AI
I don't think this is something we should be encouraging people to do if they don't know they answer to something. I recently had someone post quite confidently in Slack "I found the problem after some GPT research", followed by an absolute nonsense solution that would have cost us significant time and money if they tried to implement it.
If you don't have an understanding of the domain you're asking questions in, it can be dangerous to ask the plausible sounding answer generation machine.
2 is far worse. Asking a question that can be answered by AI can also spark a good conversation. That's not bad at all.
If I wanted an AI answer I would have gotten it myself. Some questions can be answered by AI badly.
No. 1 has been around since the dawn of time. Remember the saying, there are no stupid questions. Asking is how people learn, including learning how to ask good questions. #2 is just rude because everyone has access to the same AIs. You’re not doing anyone a favor or being helpful - if they wanted to ask AI, they would have. And what do you learn from an AI response?