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Lol just yesterday I saw an eight year old answer on SO neatly solving my problem, except the API was hallucinated. Humans have been hallucinating APIs for far

by oefrha 4y ago

Lol just yesterday I saw an eight year old answer on SO neatly solving my problem, except the API was hallucinated. Humans have been hallucinating APIs for far longer.

shagie 4y ago
This is the fundamental problem and shortsightedness of the ChatGPT ban on Stack Overflow - it doesn't go far enough. There is some imagined distinction between a hallucinated answer from a LLM and one from a person posting "try {random code}" that are both equally wrong - but only the LLM is deleted (because deleting the wrong answers are an attempt by a human to answer(?) or would hurt feelings / engagement (?)).
endisneigh 4y ago
Did you fix it?
- codetrotter 4y ago
  You need a lot of karma to edit other peoples answers, don’t you?
  - kyleee 4y ago
    And for the edit queue not to be full. So yes, basically the stars have to align :p
- oefrha 4y ago
  No, I scoured the API surface and the functionality simply isn’t exposed, so the question has no answer. There was already a comment pointing out the answer’s wrong.
sirtomato 4y ago
The first time I read this I thought it meant it was an eight year old person answering your question.
- cfuendev 4y ago
  Lol same
codetrotter 4y ago
> the API was hallucinated If the answer is from 8 years ago, did the API change between then and now? Or was the answer for the same version that you are using?
- oefrha 4y ago
  It didn’t change, the functionality was never there. The API only ever existed in that answer, otherwise a Microsoft API would have left traces elsewhere on the Internet.
  - geysersam 4y ago
    Why would someone make up an API in an SO answer?
    - cutemonster 4y ago
      Maybe mistook Java for being C# or PHP and replied with another language and framework in mind. Just guessing, I am. Or wrote pseudo code, but forgot to mention this?
aaron695 4y ago
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deely3 4y ago
Could you post the link here, thats really curious.

by oefrha 4y ago

Lol just yesterday I saw an eight year old answer on SO neatly solving my problem, except the API was hallucinated. Humans have been hallucinating APIs for far longer.

shagie 4y ago

This is the fundamental problem and shortsightedness of the ChatGPT ban on Stack Overflow - it doesn't go far enough. There is some imagined distinction between a hallucinated answer from a LLM and one from a person posting "try {random code}" that are both equally wrong - but only the LLM is deleted (because deleting the wrong answers are an attempt by a human to answer(?) or would hurt feelings / engagement (?)).

endisneigh 4y ago

Did you fix it?

codetrotter 4y ago
You need a lot of karma to edit other peoples answers, don’t you?
- kyleee 4y ago
  And for the edit queue not to be full. So yes, basically the stars have to align :p
oefrha 4y ago
No, I scoured the API surface and the functionality simply isn’t exposed, so the question has no answer. There was already a comment pointing out the answer’s wrong.

sirtomato 4y ago

The first time I read this I thought it meant it was an eight year old person answering your question.

cfuendev 4y ago
Lol same

codetrotter 4y ago

> the API was hallucinated If the answer is from 8 years ago, did the API change between then and now? Or was the answer for the same version that you are using?

oefrha 4y ago
It didn’t change, the functionality was never there. The API only ever existed in that answer, otherwise a Microsoft API would have left traces elsewhere on the Internet.
- geysersam 4y ago
  Why would someone make up an API in an SO answer?
  - cutemonster 4y ago
    Maybe mistook Java for being C# or PHP and replied with another language and framework in mind. Just guessing, I am. Or wrote pseudo code, but forgot to mention this?

aaron695 4y ago

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deely3 4y ago

Could you post the link here, thats really curious.