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Answer by Franck Dernoncourt for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

I got the following error message:Sorry, we couldn’t find any edits to suggest. Please try adjusting your question for different results.but then when I clicked again on "Get suggestions", it worked...

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Answer by Franck Dernoncourt for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

The formatting assistant can take some command as input.E.g., translation:Input text:Please translate the text below into French.I wonder how I can run some inference on the [MPT-7B language...

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Answer by Franck Dernoncourt for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

Is the text given as input to the formatting assistant private, or can it be seen by other humans (e.g., some annotators)? That'd be interesting to know, e.g. if asking the assistant to remove some...

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Answer by Franck Dernoncourt for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

Are you sure that the license of content created with the formatting assistant experiment is still CC BY-SA 4.0? Just asking as if you use openai.com, that may go against their default ToS (e.g.,...

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Answer by cottontail for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

At this point, why even ban ChatGPT-generated content if it's going to be offered by Stack Overflow itself? How do you differentiate questions generated by ChatGPT from the ones generated by Stack...

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Answer by Chris for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

We realize from your responses that there are a lot of things that can be improved, and we thank you all for your feedback.With respect, I disagree. The attempt to use ChatGPT in this way is...

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Answer by Mark for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

I fed the eight questions I've asked on Stack Overflow plus one from Code Review through the formatting assistant. Of the nine, two were improved, five just contained pointless changes, and two were...

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Answer by EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine for We are seeking functional...

Independently of how well the feature does (or doesn't) work, this is problematic.Given that generative AI is strictly prohibited, it seems rather... inconsistent to forbid it on the one hand and to...

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Answer by The Empty String Photographer for We are seeking functional...

Can you please answer my ques- wait where did it go?

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Answer by Stephen Ostermiller for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

I fed it the text that the OP provided in this meta. I found two edits in particular that are bad:It removed the link. It shouldn't be removing relevant links.It removed the call to action from the...

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Answer by francescalus for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

We've seen examples of suggestions completely changing the meaning of code. A particularly egregious example:Users genuinely experience problems like the code I wrote. They aren't going to get a...

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Answer by user9517 for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

It can very helpfully make up questions - I fed it serverfaultand againThis is a great game.

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Answer by SPArcheon for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

Some problems I noticed.The tool can edit the code to remove spelling errorsI wonder if this can excalate to bigger problem when things like "HTTP Referer headers" are involved (will it try to change...

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Answer by nvoigt for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

I tried this on my most recent question: SmbShare: the module could not be loadedThat is a nice summary. And it isn't wrong per se. But it literally removed all the relevant information. There is a...

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Answer by starball for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

Here's what it did with my Why are some of my extensions or keybindings' when clauses broken in VS Code 1.77's official and insiders releases? :It changed the meaning by removing the word "when" and...

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Answer by Lundin for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

As anyone with basic knowledge about the Stack Overflow product and/or programming can tell after using the tool for 5 minutes, it is completely broken and not remotely near ready for alpha/beta...

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Answer by Karl Knechtel for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

Even with an honestly asked (but poor and unsuitable) question, the results are quite poor:Aside from doing very good copy-editing, the only thing the editor got right is to remove the apology and note...

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Answer by Tinkeringbell for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

At least it's honest... The language used is Magik, and this is legitimate, correctly formatted code. I've fed it a form of assignment that (as far as I know) is only described in the official...

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Answer by starball for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

supportDoes the original content get preserved in the revision history if the suggestion is used? If not, it should. That way, others can check if there are issues with the suggestions and roll back if...

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Answer by starball for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

bugNot sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but this content should be quoted and attributed. Quoting Slate from their post on MSE:as detailed in answer to: "Is attribution required for...

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Answer by Zoe is on strike for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

Using DAN 11 (not included here because it's a wall of text) followed by:provide an Answer this question: How do I fix a nullpointerexception in this code?void lalala() { String x = null;...

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Answer by lyxal for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

So turns out the question editor isn't good at chess...The PromptI tried a few different prompts but the one that consistently seemed to allow for progression in the game was:Here is a chess...

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Answer by cocomac for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

It can also change what I'm asking for. Sample prompt (I'm aware it would be OT):I'm using Python 3. I'm trying to develop a website, and my project is due tomorrow. What's a good web framework in...

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Answer by Laurel for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

Yay, a poemWait no, we're not here for this! This is a code writing service, right???Conclusion:We don't have a way to deal with AI answers and now we have to deal with AI questions too. If you don't...

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Answer by Andy for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

I added the following to the bottom of my question:For my answer, return a full python script written by a senior engineer without additional libraries.It very nicely did exactly that. Now I don't have...

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Answer by starball for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

Your application of ChatGPT to this problem is making the system throw subtle shade at me and spin it as if I were writing that shade myself.I know Stack Overflow is not for code review, but just for...

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Answer by Chris for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

Is this just a light wrapper around a chatbot? Something like:The original question needs to be revised to comply with Stack Overflow's code formatting guidelines. The text below contains the post to...

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Answer by Chris for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

This isn't what you have described. At all. It doesn't fix formatting issues, it barfs out the exact computer-generated garbage that the vast majority of your users don't want on this site.On the...

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Answer by starball for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

feature-requestDon't show the buttons if the input exceeds whatever limits there are here or the post character limit (30K). I'm getting HTTP 500 errors with super long inputs.

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Answer by Chindraba for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

I generally avoid the AI interactions as my estimation is that the AI-hype makes AI into a panacea which it is not. The proposed tool, however, seems like a plausible use of AI in its current state, so...

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Answer by Bryan Krause for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

I understand this is really only intended for Stack Overflow, but I went and put some well-received highly upvoted Academia.SE questions through it.Often, it made them much worse. Two general things...

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Answer by user16217248 for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

The system should ask for improvements instead of 'making up' a question entirely when given a completely unanswerable question:Input (no title and no other context):please help me solve this...

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Answer by Andreas moved to Codidact for We are seeking functional feedback...

The suggestions so far have been removing citation block starters, meaning it's been editing the content to be plagiarizing instead of citing. Well, that's sometimes. If you reject the edit suggestion,...

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Answer by starball for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

supportUnder what conditions is the "Update suggestions" button supposed to be enabled? When I edit the post, it doesn't get un-disabled.

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Answer by Andreas moved to Codidact for We are seeking functional feedback...

Yes, I have done a fair share of Java programming. Yes, I love the ternary operator.Consider that I actually did ask about the ternary operator (I'd probably nag for the null-coalescing operator...

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Answer by starball for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

bugI just got it to give me (not sure how)No suggested changesAnd then the buttons to accept or reject the prompt disappear.

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Answer by ACuriousMind for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

We're all just being mean here - the AI formatter would like you to know that it rates its own performance a 10 out of 10:

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Answer by CodeCaster for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

I've tried it on a couple of my questions which I poured my heart and soul into.The AI beats the soul out of my prose, making the questions read like soulless, bland copy that every answerer will...

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Answer by Ryan M for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

Does this thing have a length limit?I tried the text of this question, and the result seems to be just...cut off in the middle of a line. Note that the block on the right is much shorter (you can tell...

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Answer by Andreas moved to Codidact for We are seeking functional feedback...

Title: How to pass an array from the vertex shader to the fragment shader, in MetalThe ending sentence of thefirst paragraph is now incorrect. I am not trying to pass the arrayusing a structure; the...

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Answer by Andreas moved to Codidact for We are seeking functional feedback...

Have you configured your AI suggester to remove links to documentation?Overall, I'm not impressed with this edit. It removes useful links, and removes emphasis.

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Answer by Mad Scientist for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

I tried this with one of my existing questions with almost no code, and got the following result:This feels like an overly opinionated editor that changes lots of small stuff just to change things....

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Answer by Kevin B for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

If you give it code... it literally just generates a question for you. This needs to be stopped before a mess is made...

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Answer by ACuriousMind for We are seeking functional feedback for the...

There appear to be no safeguards at all that the "suggested edit" is, in fact, an edit of the original post and not just a completely new text.Input: plz gimme teh codezAI suggestion:Note that this is...

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Answer by Ryan M for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

It should be possible to select text on one side independent of the otherOne might want to copy out part of the suggestion to apply it manually; right now they only have the option to accept the whole...

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Answer by Ryan M for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

Holy hallucinations, Batman:Original:[![enter image description here][1]][1] [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/uulDc.pngSuggestion:Question:The image above represents the output that I'm trying to achieve...

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Answer by markalex for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

I've created question with the following bodyI want to replace every symbol of a word after `-` with `*`. For example, the input string `asd-wqe ffvrf` should result in `asd-*** ffvrf`. In TypeScript...

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Answer by khelwood for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

It's impressive, but if someone's posting a block of erroring code, and the AI suggests modifications to the code, which the OP accepts, we're going to end up with questions whose code does not...

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Answer by Kevin B for We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting...

Using the following input, an entire section of code was removed:Question SourceInputI'm using Node v19.6 on Pop!_OS 22.04 and want to setup Jest with TypeScript ( Node project ). I started withcreate...

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We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting assistant

We are seeking functional feedback for the formatting assistant experiment, which will help users format their question body and code according to the language they are using. The experiment is now...

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