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Use of ChatGPT generated text for posts on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned. However, the reasons for the ban really apply to much or all of the network, and certainly for sites that are similar ...
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The sixth Community Asks Sprint, which is the final one of 2025, has now concluded. The focus was on site design and usability, and we got a number of requests for things to improve. The first ask we ...
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A little while ago, we started a conversation about evolving the look and feel of Stack Overflow. Your feedback was clear: you wanted less marketing and more product. You were right. We're sorry we ...
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Update: Sept 24, 2025 We have released various improvements and updates today: stackoverflow.ai now uses the most recent model to improve accuracy where SO & SE don't have valid answers. Improved ...
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I'm more asking this on behalf* of the many people I see trying to express protest to the OpenAI partnership in ways that get themselves into trouble: Deleting their own posts- individual or en masse ...
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Inspired by this question I was skipping through the recent blog post once again overhyping AI as The Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything Else. Leaving aside the robo-review scenarios, I ...
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Currently, the AI Assist box is seated in a loud-and-proud location at the top of the home page on Stack Overflow. I imagine that there might be a few users who didn't ask for this feature and don't ...
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I just saw this rather concerning blog post. Amongst other things, it says that Stack Exchange is exploring ways in which AI and ML [(Machine Learning)] can assist community users in writing drafts ...
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With the release of ChatGPT, a large majority of simple coding questions can be answered by ChatGPT. Should we thus require that users check ChatGPT before posting their question, to avoid trivial ...
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UPDATE - July 9, 2025 This week we’ve updated stackoverflow.ai with the following new functionality and fixes: Related content suggestions are more relevant and dynamically re-ranked during ...
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