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Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT answers after moderation flood

Stack Overflow temporarily banned ChatGPT-generated posts after plausible but frequently incorrect answers arrived faster than volunteer moderators could evaluate and remove them.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM38confidence 98/100

Why it moved the index

The sitewide policy was an implemented control responding to a demonstrated moderation-capacity failure from high-volume plausible misinformation. It also provided strong counterevidence to the reliability of early ChatGPT outputs.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 38 · confidence 98

    New December 2022 operational response to deployed generative-AI reliability and moderation harms.

    12 Aug 2026
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