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That isn't how I interpret it. I'm interpreting it as people can use the Gemini interface to ask questions, and data from Stack Overflow (and maybe other SE sites?) would be surfaced via that interface. But clarity here would be good, since it is ambiguous.
– Thomas Owens
Commented Feb 29 at 14:25
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@ThomasOwens, you are correct. People can use the Gemini interface and the Duet interface to ask questions and data from the SE Network would be surfaced via that interface.
– Rosie StaffMod
Commented Feb 29 at 17:23
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@Rosie You may want to surface that in a place that is more visible than a comment. Perhaps edit the original blog post to explain that there. Asking questions is something that you can do through both the SO user interface as well as the Gemini user interface, so that gets ambiguous. Being clear that users can't use this Gemini integration to create new content is vital.
– Thomas Owens
Commented Feb 29 at 17:25
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so... What's confusing about how you're (the SO team) wording this is it says it will allow developers to see and ask questions. If these are both one action and you're not actually allowing this interface to result in asked questions, then the wording here is wrong/missleading. The same wording was used with the OverflowAI VSCode extension, btw.
– Kevin B
Commented Feb 29 at 17:29
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As well as the OverflowAI assistant that's currently in beta, it was described as including a question asking assistant that literally just makes up a question.
– Kevin B
Commented Feb 29 at 18:10
I would hope, for Gemini's sake, that it provides links to SE answers, and keeps the summary information it generates brief. It does not matter if the human Q&A are not perfect - that's to be expected and has not prevented SE/SO from being net-useful to date. The problem with any existing AI is that they cannot really add new knowledge, and they are imperfect at copying knowledge. In the realm of concept questions, what they are best at is linking to information sources. (However, for pattern matching tasks, they can be extremely useful, with an expert human in the loop as a controller.
– Craig Hicks
Commented Mar 10 at 17:45
@Rosie there's a confusing grammar mistake or typo in your comment that completely minimizes the value of your comment. Pls fix.
– Fattie
Commented Mar 12 at 1:34

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