ChatGPT looks confident, and that's a terrible look for AI • The Register

It is a robot researcher with good communication skills; you can ask it to answer questions about various areas of knowledge and it will write short documents in various formats and in excellent English. Or write bad poetry, incomprehensible jokes, and obey a command like "Write Tetris in C." What comes out looks like it could be, too. Coders love that sort of thing, and have been stuffing Stack Overflow's dev query boards with generated snippets. Just one problem – the quality of the code is bad. So bad, Stack Overflow has screamed "STOP!" and is mulling general guidelines to stop it happening again.