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Thousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow

November 30, 2022

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.
Alleged deployer
openai
Alleged developer
openai
Alleged harmed parties
stack-overflow-users, stack-overflow

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/413

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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