The Miselucidation of Whack-a-Mole

[Cervaise]

@Whack-a-Mole

If it were, the mods could chastise me. Which they didn’t

What? Seriously, what the fuck?

@engineer_comp_geek

@Whack-a-Mole

The chatbots “bullshit” was actually correct.

In FQ, whether or not a chatbot happens to get it’s “bullshit” correct is irrelevant. The output of a chatbot is not reliable, and therefore any chatbot response in FQ is basically the equivalent of “here is something I heard from someone and I have no idea if it’s true or not and I don’t remember where I heard it so there’s no way to verify it from my source”. In most cases, the output of a chatbot is not going to be an appropriate response in FQ.

@engineer_comp_geek

So there are cases where a chatbot might steer the discussion towards a factual answer. But don’t ever post a chatbot’s response as a factual answer in FQ, because it’s not.

@engineer_comp_geek

Also relevant to the FQ part of this discussion is this rule.

From the FQ FAQ:

Guesses, WAGs, and speculation. We permit some educated guessing. Truly wild guesses aren’t especially helpful. We have some experts who post here. If you don’t have much information, give an expert a chance to answer by waiting until a question is about to fall off the first page before making a guess. If you post a factual claim, be prepared to back it up with a citation. If someone asks for a citation, don’t take it personally, we’re trying to get to the facts here, and that’s how it’s done.

“What you did is not appropriate, and don’t do it, and here’s the rule about it.”

Seriously, what the fuck are you talking about?