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Will websites like English Stack Exchange and its ilk become obsolete due to ChatGPT?
I have asked ChatGPT3.5 numerous questions about English grammar, and several of the responses were seriously flawed in various ways.
For example:
I asked ChatGPT3.5 to translate a Wikipedia text ...
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Has EL&U stopped tweeting?
No questions have been (automatically) tweeted since February 8th, 2023 on any Stack Exchange site. No questions will be (automatically) tweeted after that either.
You are one of the few people who ...
LaurelMod
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Should we update our site's policy against helping programmers choose names to use in their software?
I wholeheartedly agree with the rule that excludes requests for 'naming, including naming programming variables/classes' from this site, and I do not think that it should be changed. However, I do ...
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Replacing our "research" close reason
Dictionaries don't necessarily answer super basic grammar questions, so the new close-reason wouldn't easily apply to those types of 'too-easy' questions. Are we just going to migrate those all? AFAIK,...
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Recognizing generic ChatGPT posts
ColleenV has commented usefully:
Isn't it obvious? It's vague, overly verbose and too formal for the context. It reads like a grade school essay instead of an answer by someone who has actual ...
Andrew LeachMod
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"Community" edits are often useless and confusing
I asked about the removal of the "Bumped to the homepage by Community" banner in 2019 and they said no, they won't add it back. (See Where's the bump notice?) The bump notice is now in ...
LaurelMod
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Replacing our "research" close reason
There are two distinct, although related, questions here: (1) Is the show-research reason for closing used too much, and, if so, how should its use be limited; (2) Should that reason (perhaps narrowed ...
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Should we update our site's policy against helping programmers choose names to use in their software?
I think the principle we should use is that an EL&U question must be about the English language and/or its usage.
As a programmer myself, I understand that picking a name is sometimes a linguistic ...
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Unreasonable expectations for questions and pedantic gatekeeping
Generally speaking, a question is expected to have more content than "Which is correct, A or B?"
You did include an example, but didn't include an explanation of what you meant by ...
Kit Z. FoxMod
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How can word choice questions be closed for being opinion-based?
The word-choice tag is for questions which are making a choice between a known set of words.
Your question is not about choosing the most appropriate from a list you have already curated. You are ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Yet Another Reopen Request ("Yarr!" in pirate-speak! :)
It was closed for lack of evidence of research, and even reveiewed:
The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 12 hours ago and left it closed:
Original close reason(s) were not resolved
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Andrew LeachMod
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Is the background color of the ELU SE website based on the background color of the Etymonline website?
I was surfing etymonline and I found its background color exactly identical to the one of our beloved site.
“Exactly identical” ? Really? :)
Because the perception of color occurs only in the mind of ...
tchristMod
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ELU, or Writing?
English Language and Usage: The Trees
ELU deals mostly with very specific questions. Single words. Phrases. Idioms. If your translation question can be distilled into a fill-in-the-blank problem, you ...
LaurelMod
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Replacing our "research" close reason
As my name was invoked regarding drafting text for the close modal and post notices, I thought I might offer some guidance in addition to what y'all have already discussed. What's presented below is ...
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How can it be true that this site works by popular vote when no one can vote until they get to a certain reputation?
If you think something isn't accurate, write an answer which is.
Currently to cast a downvote here you need to have a score of 125 reputation points on this site. You get those points by making a ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Unreasonable expectations for questions and pedantic gatekeeping
I think it's totally unreasonable to expect questions to be devoid of misunderstanding.
People vote on questions as they find them, and if a question is deficient, then people are allowed to CV it. ...
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Should we update our site's policy against helping programmers choose names to use in their software?
Q:
Should we update our site’s policy against helping programmers choose names to use in their software?
(my) A:
No, there’s too much resistance here; I imagine it wouldn’t be worth the trouble to ...
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Should we capitalize divine pronouns on here?
Capitalize how you want. Let others capitalize how they want. But be consistent within the same post and don't change direct quotes.
Looking at the Bible translations on BibleHub, there's a pretty ...
LaurelMod
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Will websites like English Stack Exchange and its ilk become obsolete due to ChatGPT?
Unlikely
As for the current iteration of ChatGPT (based on GPT-3.5), it's simply not reliable for even the most basic of tasks. For example, it did not tell me about the second spelling of "...
LaurelMod
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Recognizing generic ChatGPT posts
Background: I have more than 1,200 helpful flags on Stack Overflow specifically around GPT/AI/LLM answers (12 declines, and a handful more that were marked "Helpful" but not acted on). ...
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Replacing our "research" close reason
I wholeheartedly support this observation and the proposed change.
It should be noted that this is very close to how that very closing-reason was originally devised here, as General Reference.
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Are we being encouraged to answer very old questions, or are they just being made more visually pleasing?
Posts are edited for a number of reasons, but all edits must make the post better, especially when it's a post that's not currently on the "active homepage" since space there is limited and ...
LaurelMod
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Why was my question about word definitions and differences closed by mods and downvoted by readers?
I'll weigh in here, because I haven't had anything to do with the question so far. Others who were involved can give an answer if I've missed anything.
Your original question was tidied up with ten ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Relatively recent instances of foreign language grammar entering standard English usage
The obvious example would be the influence of AAVE (Black English) on American English, and whence on English more globally through the influence of Hollywood, popular music, etc. There are many ...
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Why was this question closed as 'opinion based'?
The question one must ask oneself is how one can decide better or worse, and preferably right or wrong, when looking over possible answers here. Because you cannot, these are Primarily Opinion-Based ...
tchristMod
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Where can I find books from the late 17th/early 18th century about English grammar and phonology?
Although Google Books and Hathitrust report multiple copies of both Aickin's grammar and Miège's grammar, none of the copies are available for reading in full on those sites. It is unclear to me what ...
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Recognizing generic ChatGPT posts
If you run this answer through Zero GPT, it will claim that the text is from ChatGPT/AI. These tools are not foolproof, but it doesn't matter, because the answer shows no research and is generally low ...
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Replacing our "research" close reason
In one of your suggested CV reasons (I guess it would be "usage guidance"?), you included this text:
Make sure a link to that dictionary has been provided in the comments before closing.
I ...
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Why do my questions on the etymology of idioms get closed, yet this one was accepted?: What is the origin of "out of sight" or "outa sight" i?
No question of yours asked on our main site has been “pulled” — whatever you meant by that. Certainly not even one has yet been deleted. You have to date asked exactly three questions on English ...
tchristMod
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Problem with the "Closed" message?
Six months ago, an official MSE post was released where they explained some proposed changes to the closure notices. Though I'm not sure when these new messages will be implemented, the part you've ...
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