They used stack overflow to make their case, and report that user engagement has gone down after the release of ChatGPT. Could it not be the case that SO is less adept at finding related/duplicate questions than ChatGPT? Given the later's facility with the language, I would expect it to be. So I look at the paper to see if they accounted for that, and find this.
"Second, we investigate whether ChatGPT is simply displacing simpler or lower quality posts on Stack Overflow. To do so, we use data on up- and downvotes, simple forms of social feedback provided by other users to rate posts. We observe no change in the votes posts receive on Stack Overflow since the release of ChatGPT. This finding suggests that ChatGPT is displacing a wide variety of Stack Overflow posts, including high-quality content."
Can anyone tell me how they are related and what it means?
"Second, we investigate whether ChatGPT is simply displacing simpler or lower quality posts on Stack Overflow. To do so, we use data on up- and downvotes, simple forms of social feedback provided by other users to rate posts. We observe no change in the votes posts receive on Stack Overflow since the release of ChatGPT. This finding suggests that ChatGPT is displacing a wide variety of Stack Overflow posts, including high-quality content."
Can anyone tell me how they are related and what it means?
PS: I also asked ChatGPT (4). Here's what it says https://chat.openai.com/share/7029a1e5-63d0-4cec-bf76-10b0b5...