Timeline for AI Assist is now available on Stack Overflow
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| Dec 8, 2025 at 14:33 | comment | added | Organic Marble | Wow, this addition is crap. Who would have thought it? | |
| Dec 5, 2025 at 9:16 | comment | added | Lundin | The AI is also happy to help you writing plagiarized answers by stealing content from SO. You just have to pinky-promise that you won't share it with anyone. stackoverflow.com/ai-assist/shared/… Great tool for plagiarism and spam! | |
| Dec 5, 2025 at 1:14 | comment | added | remcycles | "A vast majority of Stack Overflow users want their posts read and be useful to other users." That would include me. I joined the site to interact with other humans, and the reputation system is an important part of that. Plagiarizing and showing users my answers without attributing them to me means I won't get the reputation reward I might deserve from helping others. I came to SO to share, collaborate, and get recognized for my effort, not get ripped off. | |
| Dec 4, 2025 at 18:18 | history | edited | cottontail | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
improved phrasing
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| Dec 4, 2025 at 15:24 | comment | added | ouflak | This was disappointing. I custom tailored my query so that I knew which questions it would have to reference to give a (hopefully) correct answer. The information was in its response - but no proper attribution. | |
| Dec 3, 2025 at 16:02 | comment | added | Catija | @AshZade The linked post clearly refers to the same solution as the AI tool. I'm not a dev, so maybe I'm just missing how they're different but it looks like the answers seem to refer to a similar solution. Yes, the content isn't identical - so not "quoted" - but if the goal is to point users to human answers on SO, it seems odd that the existing SO answer/s aren't being referenced. Does the tool only reference recent answers on SO? This one is from 2011. | |
| Dec 2, 2025 at 21:43 | comment | added | Ash Zade Staff | The contents from the SO post and your shared chats don't match. I don't see the connection between it and AI Assist's AI response. BTW, thank you for sharing the examples and talking me through what you're seeing. I really appreciate it. | |
| Dec 2, 2025 at 21:41 | comment | added | cottontail | @AshZade This SO post answers this question. In fact, there's an answer there that OpenAI probably used in its training data. The fact that SO AI can't find it is worrisome. | |
| Dec 2, 2025 at 20:57 | comment | added | Ash Zade Staff | Ah ok, I was worried it was miss-associating quotes. If SO/SE don’t have relevant content, AI Assist will still answer but an AI generated answer from its model’s training data. The second example is behaviour we don’t want and we’re looking into it. | |
| Dec 2, 2025 at 20:55 | comment | added | cottontail | @AshZade The quote matches the linked post but that post is not about what I'm asking about. The assistant answer is answering my question though, which means the assistant cannot have sourced the answer from the quoted text. | |
| Dec 2, 2025 at 20:39 | comment | added | Ash Zade Staff | In first example, it searched and did not find anything relevant. I’m looking into the second example. Thanks for sharing both. | |
| Dec 2, 2025 at 20:33 | comment | added | Ash Zade Staff | “ Also the answer doesn't seem to reference the retrieved post either because what the answer says is different from the linked post.” Using the shared convo, the quote matches the source content for me. | |
| Dec 2, 2025 at 20:31 | comment | added | Ash Zade Staff | which code block included attributing AI Assist? We don’t have attribution for the AI content. | |
| Dec 2, 2025 at 19:10 | comment | added | cottontail | By the way, when I copy with attribution, the attribution references the AI assistant, not the source post it referenced. Are you joking? | |
| Dec 2, 2025 at 19:05 | history | answered | cottontail | CC BY-SA 4.0 |