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Note that our policy post on computer-generated text, while entitled "please don't use computer-generated text," justifies this request based on long-standing cultural expectations within our community:

  • Users' contributions here are expected to be substantially original work, rather than the user's writing which has been copied here from elsewhere.

  • Content which is plagiarised from some other source — that is, written by someone else but claimed by the poster as their own — is not allowed. It doesn't matter whether the source is a chatbot, or an encyclopedia, or a book. If you didn't write it, you need to cite it.

  • Users who post material that wastes other people's time, for instance by being substantially incorrect or irrelevant, are not welcome here.

These expectations are not changed by claims that a new chatbot version has impressive new skills. If an asker wanted to know how a chatbot would answer their question, they would presumably go to the chatbot's website instead of coming to our community. Improved chatbots might reduce the risk of the time-wasting hallucinatory answers we got when ChatGPT first became available for the public to use. But an answer whose content is mostly a chatbot quote is in no way a substantially original contribution.

Note that our policy post on computer-generated text, while entitled "please don't use computer-generated text," justifies this request based on long-standing cultural expectations within our community:

  • Users' contributions here are expected to be substantially original work, rather than the user's writing which has been copied here from elsewhere.

  • Content which is plagiarised from some other source — that is, written by someone else claimed by the poster as their own — is not allowed. It doesn't matter whether the source is a chatbot, or an encyclopedia, or a book. If you didn't write it, you need to cite it.

  • Users who post material that wastes other people's time, for instance by being substantially incorrect or irrelevant, are not welcome here.

These expectations are not changed by claims that a new chatbot version has impressive new skills. If an asker wanted to know how a chatbot would answer their question, they would presumably go to the chatbot's website instead of coming to our community. Improved chatbots might reduce the risk of the time-wasting hallucinatory answers we got when ChatGPT first became available for the public to use. But an answer whose content is mostly a chatbot quote is in no way a substantially original contribution.

Note that our policy post on computer-generated text, while entitled "please don't use computer-generated text," justifies this request based on long-standing cultural expectations within our community:

  • Users' contributions here are expected to be substantially original work, rather than the user's writing which has been copied here from elsewhere.

  • Content which is plagiarised from some other source — that is, written by someone else but claimed by the poster as their own — is not allowed. It doesn't matter whether the source is a chatbot, or an encyclopedia, or a book. If you didn't write it, you need to cite it.

  • Users who post material that wastes other people's time, for instance by being substantially incorrect or irrelevant, are not welcome here.

These expectations are not changed by claims that a new chatbot version has impressive new skills. If an asker wanted to know how a chatbot would answer their question, they would presumably go to the chatbot's website instead of coming to our community. Improved chatbots might reduce the risk of the time-wasting hallucinatory answers we got when ChatGPT first became available for the public to use. But an answer whose content is mostly a chatbot quote is in no way a substantially original contribution.

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rob Mod
  • 98.3k
  • 1
  • 39
  • 91

Note that our policy post on computer-generated text, while entitled "please don't use computer-generated text," justifies this request based on long-standing cultural expectations within our community:

  • Users' contributions here are expected to be substantially original work, rather than the user's writing which has been copied here from elsewhere.

  • Content which is plagiarised from some other source — that is, written by someone else claimed by the poster as their own — is not allowed. It doesn't matter whether the source is a chatbot, or an encyclopedia, or a book. If you didn't write it, you need to cite it.

  • Users who post material that wastes other people's time, for instance by being substantially incorrect or irrelevant, are not welcome here.

These expectations are not changed by claims that a new chatbot version has impressive new skills. If an asker wanted to know how a chatbot would answer their question, they would presumably go to the chatbot's website instead of coming to our community. Improved chatbots might reduce the risk of the time-wasting hallucinatory answers we got when ChatGPT first became available for the public to use. But an answer whose content is mostly a chatbot quote is in no way a substantially original contribution.