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Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned

Moderator Note: This post has been locked to prevent comments because people have been using them for protracted debate and discussion (we've deleted over 300 comments on this post alone, not even ...
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Are questions about ChatGPT code okay to ask?

If I want to verify if a script or code ChatGPT wrote would actually work and do as I want, can I ask a question about it or is it not allowed?
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A proposal: Developing a standard code of conduct dealing with AI-generated content (AIGC)

In light of the recent events with VonC's AIGC violations and suspension, quite a few people have been discussing if a one week suspension (alongside content deletion) was sufficient or not. There ...
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Under what conditions is a non-mod allowed to vote to delete content for suspicion of violating the AI-generated-content policy?

There's a network-wide policy for mods in (Interim) Policy on AI-content detection reports that states: [...] it is expected that if the CM team reaches out to contact a moderator to discuss an ...
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How are new users supposed to find out about the AI-content ban?

I'm a new user (I knew of SO but never used it until I started learning how to code). I've almost violated the AI-policy already - I wanted to post something that was generated via ChatGPT (but tested ...
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AI policy text may be improved about machine translation tools

As we all know, since January 2024, Stack Overflow shows a banner warning against generative AI (which I perfectly support). The banner links to this page, which contains the AI policy text, ...
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Should we flag human-written questions that use code generated by ChatGPT?

To be more specific, I flagged a question recently as it was of the type "ChatGPT generated this but I need some more help fixing this". But I was told by a mod that asking a question about ...
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Shouldn't users be citing ChatGPT?

I know this sounds counterintuitive, who would out themselves? We are all aware of the Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned. However, this post has to do with the plagiarism aspect of using ChatGPT. ...