Yes, it should be banned. To the question of "how do we identify those posts?" it should be considered that this problem is not new or unique to SO. Plagiarism is a concern that spans broadly. An answer found in academia is to copy/paste answers back into ChatGPT and it will respond to it as a continuation of the conversation, flagging it as AI-generated.

This is a potential technique, and one that scales. Multiple suggestions here implying that "you can tell it by looking at it" isn't all that helpful because we can't expect people to reliably keep up with the potentially exponential flow of spam answers.

Yes, it should be banned. To the question of "How do we identify those posts?", it should be considered that this problem is not new or unique to Stack Overflow. Plagiarism is a concern that spans broadly. An answer found in academia is to copy/paste answers back into ChatGPT and see if it responds to it as a continuation of a conversation; if it does, then flag it as AI-generated.

This is a potential technique, and one that scales. Multiple suggestions here imply that "you can tell it by looking at it", which isn't all that helpful because we can't expect people to reliably keep up with the potentially exponential flow of spam answers.

Yes, it should be banned. To the question of "how do we identify those posts?" it should be considered that this problem is not new or unique to SO. Plagiarism is a concern that spans broadly. An answer found in academia is to copy/paste answers BACK INTO ChatGPT and it will respond to it as a continuation of the conversation, flagging it as AI-generated.

This is a potential technique, and one that scales. Multiple suggestions here implying that "you can tell it by looking at it" isn't all that helpful because we can't expect people to reliably keep up with the potentially exponential flow of spam answers.

Yes, it should be banned. To the question of "how do we identify those posts?" it should be considered that this problem is not new or unique to SO. Plagiarism is a concern that spans broadly. An answer found in academia is to copy/paste answers back into ChatGPT and it will respond to it as a continuation of the conversation, flagging it as AI-generated.

This is a potential technique, and one that scales. Multiple suggestions here implying that "you can tell it by looking at it" isn't all that helpful because we can't expect people to reliably keep up with the potentially exponential flow of spam answers.