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This graph is misinformation

Although we have seen a small decline in traffic, in no way is it what the graph is showing (which some have incorrectly interpreted to be a 50% or 35% decrease). This year [2023], overall, we’re seeing an average of ~5% less traffic compared to 2022.

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53 points

And yet they didn’t show us a rectified or accurate graph.

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They’re lying

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32 points

Says who? ChatGPT?

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ChatGPT is lying too, and is also really confident about it.

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Says corporations trying to protect their investment.

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11 points

Is this a facts or feelings response?

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Is this a trust a company to announce it’s dying response?

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2 points

You got evidence for that bold statement, ooooor

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An ML trusting a corporation, orrrr?

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103 points

It will recover when AI learns sneering condescension.

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Wonder where chatgpt will get its training data in the future, as it’s known not to extrapolate well. Where will it learn new frameworks, languages, … from?

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52 points

Its going to starve itself.

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Let it die

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I doubt it ever scraped SO, otherwise all the answers would be smth along the lines: “I cannot answer this question due to low quality effort!” closes browser window

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The documentation?

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The docs. It’s what it does now a lot of the time I’ve noticed.

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22 points

Auto generated docs since devs don’t document?

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Chatgpt, look at this repo and write docs

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Yeah the smaller the project the less effective this is.

But even learning from the source code is pretty effective.

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That works when the docs are good and clear. Otherwise, we’ll have to revert to communicating with each other for brief periods while the chat-bots train themselves on the new data.

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4 points

A lot of models are being trained on “synthetic” data now, right?

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5 points

Even when a parrot learns to parrot a parrot, the first parrot still has to be taught.

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1 point

Armies on paid personal generating content?

I see absolutely no problem with that.

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I’ve been on SO like ten times altogether since ChatGPT came out. It’s so much nicer than the condescending pricks of Stack Overflow. My favourite is when some genius links a question as a duplicate of something that’s vaguely similar.

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The problem is that fewer people are generating the new content for gpt to slurp up.

Free information stops working when people stop caring about creating it.

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Yeah, I’ve thought about that as well. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna miss Stack Overflow specifically. Perhaps something better replaces it when AI gets poisoned by its own output too much.

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I think not. The problem isn’t in a service, the problem is in people.

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Yup. Stopped answering questions as soon as they did that.

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12 points

This question was already answered 10 years ago in a completely different version of the programming language to the one you’re using, and we know it doesn’t work anymore, in fact hasn’t for 8 years, but we’re going to close it anyway because screw you.

Also you should be doing it in Rust anyway

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my first thought about it too

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What do you ask ChatGPT? I rarely get a correct answer really, it’s all made-up bullshit usually.

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I usually have good answers with only minimal bullshit when it comes to coding. If not, it at least points me in the right direction.

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Down voted. If you’re just going to post a screenshot, you must include a link to the source. This is a link sharing platform.

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I thought I was going to be rickrolled but this is better.

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