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Thousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow
- Occurred
- Nov 30, 2022
- Published
- Dec 9, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Stack Overflow users
- Stack Overflow
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: ChatGPT generated incorrect answers that overwhelmed Stack Overflow's moderation, causing user harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8