As another update, we had to perma-ban the original user who’s LLM-generated response initially prompted this thread, as their further posts were just copy-pasting other peoples’ old (and often extremely outdated) questions from Stack Overflow with an added link to a spammy site they were evidently promoting, with moderate (possibly LLM-induced) paraphrasing to attempt to obfuscate it and no attribution. Of note, this demonstrates another form of re-using external content without attribution of which the above-proposed policy would address.
Additionally, we’ve had at least one further substantial instance of a new user employing an AI, this time in the process of writing a question asking for code review, as well as subsequent followups. Specifically, they used codepal.ai to edit the code and asked ChatGPT questions about the code/responses as well as using it to guide code generation in later replies. To note, they’d previously posted another code review thread with their own code, which developed into a long and fruitful back and forth discussion/Q&A, but this one swiftly digressed into debate about the use of LLMs and similar tools in generating, editing and reviewing code: