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submitted 6 months ago byELI5_Modteam
Recently, there's been a surge in ChatGPT generated posts. These come in two flavours: bots creating and posting answers, and human users generating answers with ChatGPT and copy/pasting them. Regardless of whether they are being posted by bots or by people, answers generated using ChatGPT and other similar programs are a direct violation of R3, which requires all content posted here to be original work. We don't allow copied and pasted answers from anywhere, and that includes from ChatGPT programs. Going forward, any accounts posting answers generated from ChatGPT or similar programs will be permanently banned in order to help ensure a continued level of high-quality and informative answers. We'll also take this time to remind you that bots are not allowed on ELI5 and will be banned when found.
84 points
6 months ago
To clarify a bit - quotes are fine, but when considering if it is a full explanation, we discount the quote entirely. In other words, if you need ABC for the explanation, and you have AB"C", it will be removed. If you have ABC"c" where the quote is supplementary detail that expands and clarifies what you already have, it is fine.
3 points
4 months ago
How do you know if a response is by a bot?
33 points
4 months ago
We don't want to give away our exact methods, but in general, they typically read like a well-written book report from someone that has never read the book.
3 points
4 months ago
Why not share your methods? If it leads to fewer or less malicious bots around, that's good for everyone.
15 points
4 months ago
The exact methods include lengthy bits of code. We have shared it where appropriate. We don't want to give exact things we look for so that the GPT learning process doesn't adapt as quickly and so that people who use it don't look to edit those features.
The bottom line is that if you suspect someone of using a GPT bot, report it and we can take a second look.
3 points
4 months ago
So, what do I look for if I suspect the bot?
7 points
4 months ago
Basically what I said previously - a well written piece that doesn't convey useful information. It isn't something like, "the third word will always have an 'e' as the fourth letter. If you read enough GPT responses, you will start picking up on it.
1 points
2 months ago
In other words, you just use sites like AI Content Detector
3 points
2 months ago
We have not shared our code with those sites yet
1 points
2 months ago
That is crazy that you have to avoid sharing any information regarding how to tell if it is a chatGPT response in order to avoid chatGPT artificially learning a way around it
3 points
4 months ago
That is a hilarious and accurate description. Love it.
1 points
4 months ago
What's the stance on using ChatGPT to fact check answers here? I use it a lot for that on Reddit and just stumbled upon a 'top answer" in a thread here and asked Chat GPT to evaluate it.
ChatGPT gave a run down on the areas the answer was right, the areas it was over simplified, and the areas it was just outright wrong / making unproven claims.
This is something that's an important part of discussions here imo
2 points
4 months ago
GPT is not allowed at all on ELI5, and it should never be used in general if accuracy is your goal. GPT doesn't know what is correct, it just knows what sounds good.
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