<p>As you may be aware, over the last week Stack Overflow has been plagued by some users' feeding questions posted there into the chat-bot '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ChatGPT</a>' then copy-&amp;-pasting its responses into purported answers. This practice has now been prohibited on S.O. (<a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned">Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned</a>), &amp; may yet be prohibited network-wide (<a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384396/ban-chatgpt-network-wide">Ban ChatGPT network-wide</a>).</p>
<p>After reviewing answers since 30th Nov. (when ChatGPT was launched), I'm confident that there's been only a single case of this on Cross Validated up till now. So no cause for alarm: but if an answer does raise your suspicions please flag it as &quot;in need of moderator attention&quot;—we'd like to know even in the unlikely event that it's a useful one. (And of course be advised that it's probably not worth your while to put much effort into engaging with the answerer.)</p>
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<p>There've been three more now (7th Dec.)—from the same account, in quick succession. I note that four people have wasted their time writing comments asking for clarification or challenging the &quot;answers&quot;.</p>
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<p>As of 12th Dec. we've still had a total of only twelve or thirteen, from five accounts. It doesn't seem we're going to suffer as S.O. has, though I note that ChatGPT has been at operating at full capacity for the last few days &amp; is no longer accepting new accounts.</p>
