New software has been released recently named ChatGPT that is causing quite a stir around the network:

• Could ChatGPT be a viable way to answer people's questions?
• Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned
• Ban ChatGPT network-wide

Slate, a Stack Exchange Community Manager, posted a comment on the Meta.SE link above:

We have begun internal discussions to identify options for addressing this issue. We’re also reading what folks write about the topic on their individual sites, as one piece of assessing the overall impact. While we evaluate, we hope that folks on network sites feel comfortable establishing per-site policies responsive to their communities’ needs.

This is fairly new territory, so I'm interested in gathering the UNIX & Linux community's thoughts on AI-generated answers. There are several key points that have been raised already, so I'll seed the discussion with some of them:

• You must attribute the answers to the source (sources: Machavity's answer; Makoto's answer)

• Generated answers may not be correct (sources: Nineberry's answer; Journeyman Geek's answer)

Do we want to prohibit AI-generated answers? Do we allow them, with attribution?