user2516: (Not very) recently, an AI chatbot ChatGPT was released to the public. It is really sophisticated that it can also answer many kinds of questions, regardless if it is factually correct or wrong.
It has been banned on Stack Overflow and made official due to the disruption it caused. Another discussion on the main Meta concluded with a staff stating "we hope that folks on network sites feel comfortable establishing per-site policies responsive to their communities' needs."

Recently, there was a user (ab)using ChatGPT by posting its responses as answers as-is without mentioning the source. Currently, these have been deleted as plagiarism (as per our help center, How to reference material written by others).
Moving forward, how should these kinds of AI-generated posts, including answers and questions, be treated in this community?

user2159: Deal with them as we do for non-referenced material. We already have the tools, we do not need a more-specific policy. From the point of view of the readers, there's no loss if a bot can generate well sourced, correct answers to questions.

user102: I think Stack Overflow's model on both disallowing answers posted from it and then banning users for it unceremoniously is the right model to follow.
Think of it like this.  It's already the case that the site is really, really quiet.  We don't want to risk someone astroturfing answers (or questions) here that come from a chat bot, since that means the community would need to have a more discerning eye about what's going on.  That could turn into witch hunts, which isn't constructive no matter the community.
We cannot allow bot-generated answers to survive in our curated knowledge base.

2516: <p>(Not very) recently, an AI chatbot <a href="https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ChatGPT</a> was released to the public. It is really sophisticated that it can also answer many kinds of questions, regardless if it is <em>factually correct or wrong</em>.</p>
<p>It has been <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned">banned on Stack Overflow</a> and made <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/gpt-policy">official</a> due to the disruption it caused. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384396/ban-chatgpt-network-wide">Another discussion on the main Meta</a> concluded with <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/385002/241919">a staff stating &quot;<em>we hope that folks on network sites feel comfortable establishing per-site policies responsive to their communities' needs.</em>&quot;</a></p>
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<p>Recently, there was a user (ab)using ChatGPT by posting its responses as answers as-is without mentioning the source. Currently, these have been deleted as plagiarism (as per our help center, <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/help/referencing">How to reference material written by others</a>).</p>
<p>Moving forward, how should these kinds of AI-generated posts, including answers <em>and questions</em>, be treated in this community?</p>
 2159: <p>Deal with them as we do for non-referenced material. We already have the tools, we do not need a more-specific policy. From the point of view of the readers, there's no loss if a bot can generate well sourced, correct answers to questions.</p>
 102: <p>I think Stack Overflow's model on both disallowing answers posted from it and then banning users for it unceremoniously is the right model to follow.</p>
<p>Think of it like this.  It's already the case that the site is really, really quiet.  We don't want to risk someone astroturfing answers (or questions) here that come from a chat bot, since that means the community would need to have a more discerning eye about what's going on.  That could turn into witch hunts, which isn't constructive no matter the community.</p>
<p>We cannot allow bot-generated answers to survive in our curated knowledge base.</p>
