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    I like this a lot. I suspect, as you acknowledge, that there will still be legitimate objections and concerns, but this is a massive step forward in terms of both actually preserving content attribution and also tangibly demonstrating that it's indeed a priority internally. At first glance, this looks pretty cool! Commented Sep 2 at 18:55
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    semantic / vector-based search in general is a direction of experimentation I'm interested in and happy to see. better search would be good for everyone. (not sure if the current main-site(s) searchbar uses anything like that?) Commented Sep 2 at 22:24
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    "The community identified a significant issue in that this was not providing appropriate attribution to Stack creators." This is pretty cynical thing to say. SE Inc itself was going on and on how significant attribution is, and it was absolutely obvious SE.AI V1 didn’t attribute as well as that the technology itself has trouble with attribution. If you folks didn’t realise this you were doing an incredibly terrible job. Styling this as taking in feedback from the community is rather tone deaf. Commented Sep 3 at 4:00
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    @MisterMiyagi: On the flip side, the community did point this out. Better they acknowledge the community's criticism, rather than making it seem as if they came to this decision on their own when they initially released the feature in a way that didn't preserve attribution. Commented Sep 3 at 15:50
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    Your screenshots have clear hallucinations in it… Commented Sep 3 at 22:12
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    This only work for searching english site? I try to ask in spanish.. it answer in spanish, but there where no reference to my own answer in spanish.. in fact, it reference other answer on english.. why, If I'm asking in spanish, it takes me to an english answer??? also, half the interface is in english, the other half in spanish... Commented Sep 5 at 16:39
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    @gbianchi while it has access to all of SE, we haven't optimized the experience to support multiple languages. It is on our roadmap, though. Commented Sep 5 at 16:42
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    Sadly the "AI Assist" feature largely deprives authors, whose content was used and attributed in the provided summary, from growing their reputation from a good answer - if AI Assist helps readers to solve their issues directly, readers don't look up any particular source answers to upvote them. I know this because since the Google AI provided an AI overview of how to generate pastel colors in JavaScript I ceased getting further upvotes for the attributed answer when students were assigned the task somewhere in the world. Commented Sep 7 at 1:09
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    I think it is downright insulting that in the blog spam, you say that "we built this with the community". The most up-voted feedback posts all contain phrases like: why are you even doing this, we did not ask for this, I don't support this experiment at all, please remove it and focus on different things etc etc. The community did not ask for this. The community does not want it. Commented Sep 10 at 7:51
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    That's a huge stretch and a very broad definition of "built with the community". It is dishonest. I get it, sometimes you need to make a clickbaity title. But a more honest answer would have been "we know that the community is against it, but we believe we need to keep moving forward, and we are trying to incorporate feedback that is compatible with our goals". You could have titled the blog post something along the lines of "so.ai is improving with feedback from the community" or whatever. You know, something honest, while keeping your hopeful tone. (Sorry if tone is harsh, not my first lang) Commented Sep 10 at 12:58
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    @AshZade This isn't the 10th time the company asks for community feedback, selectively ignores everything negative & goes a head and push through with it anyway, then claim in some blog post that they "put community first". More like the 50th time. -> Commented Sep 10 at 14:28
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    Specifically there are two feedback threads here on meta concerning stackoverflow.ai and they are pretty much to a man 100% negative and against the feature. The first thread has a score of -229 and made it into "hall of shame" - the last page of meta of lowest scored posts of all time - which means it's not just badly received, it is spectacularly badly received. Commented Sep 10 at 14:28
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    @AshZade That's a very strange way of measuring community support. I think SO should start selling pants, so I made an experiment web shop selling pants. Out of those few who actually bought pants, the majority were positive. Therefore the majority of SO users are in favour of SO selling pants. See the logic flaws here? Commented Sep 11 at 13:09
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    I'm not challenging the definition of "community". I'm challenging the notion of "built with". Looking at thumbs up is not cooperation. Analyzing trends is not cooperation. I don't even care if reception has been good for the rest of the community (the "thumb up" people), that's a measure of sentiment. That's not cooperation. The claim in the blog post title is that the community (us) has built a tool with you (SO). That has not happened. But I think I'll disengage, Lundin makes good points. I'm just tired of this. Commented Sep 11 at 13:20
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    @DevSolar we are looking at that + comments. You can see from the two iterations since launch that we addressed things like lack of context, using block quotes to retrieve fuller, more useful content, and we have another iteration coming next week that addresses a few more points. Commented Sep 17 at 15:47