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Incident 413: Thousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow

Description: Thousands of incorrect answers produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT were submitted to Stack Overflow, which swamped the site's volunteer-based quality curation process and harmed users looking for correct answers.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Stack Overflow users and Stack Overflow.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
413
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-11-30
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

3.1. False or misleading information

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Misinformation

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

Human

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

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Incident Occurrence+1
Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned
Why is Everyone Bashing ChatGPT?
Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned

Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned

meta.stackoverflow.com

AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow

AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow

theverge.com

Why is Everyone Bashing ChatGPT?

Why is Everyone Bashing ChatGPT?

analyticsindiamag.com

Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned
meta.stackoverflow.com · 2022

Use of ChatGPT generated text for content on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned.

This is a temporary policy intended to slow down the influx of answers and other content created with ChatGPT. What the final policy will be regarding the us…

AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow
theverge.com · 2022

Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.

The site's mods said that the ban was temporary and that a final ruling woul…

Why is Everyone Bashing ChatGPT?
analyticsindiamag.com · 2022

Unfounded assumptions, bad advice, incorrect information—the biggest source of problems on the internet today is people blindly buying into hype. ChatGPT, which has taken the internet by the storm recently, seems to be making it a lot easie…

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