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See also: chatGPT response to "Arduino forum: my code doesn't work"
tl;dr: Ban ChatGPT.
Other fora have placed a ban on contributions from ChatGPT.
I say we should on these as well.
A hard ban on simply cut/pasting the entirety of an AI response. We've seen it: no attribution, no caveats or disclaimers, not a trace of anyone trying to disguise the source. Often no evidence that the response was even read for plausibility.
So far, the AI stuff stands out like a sore thumb. Soon people will figure out how to make AI responses look like their own work. The trouble will be deeper then.
We've seen noobs with code made by ChatGPT come and present that "work", and ask for help. I know there will always be noobs, but in the same way we encourage them to "post the code", we should gently suggest to them that ChatGPT is no good for noob coding and we'd rather see what they are actually bringing to the table. So we can help appropriaelty.
I'm not opposed to using ChatGPT, or google for that matter. I have done myself. Using google to verify a memory or otherwise improve an answer before posting some kind of help is fine. In fact, googling ahead of typing something off the top of my head often results in my just posting the search terms and inviting the OP to "google it", like they didn't start there.
As for getting code out of ChatGPT, I have had success and failure. Only because I sorta know what I'm doing was it is easy to see when ChatGPT produces nonsense. Only because I sorta know what I'm doing was it possible to lead ChatGPT to a workable solution. Sometimes I could not.
ChatGPT code is as bad or worse than any code a noob finds, makes no effort to understand and then brings here for help fixing.
ChatGPT and google are both way more powerful in the hands of someone who kinda knows how to engage the tool. Who knows something to begin with.
Part of my argument here is that the policy should be clear and manifest. It should not be vague, it should be neither arbitrary nor capricious. It should be crystal clear - these fora are for humans. Who have problems or have something to offer to ppl with those problems.
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