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In this post: Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned there is written that AI generated content is banned on "answers", because they ofter are wrong and low quality.

But I just got downvoted when I Posted a question with code generated by AI with my attempt to solve the issue by asking ChatGPT first, the code was not working. I also got a comment that AI generated content may make my question closed by a person with almost million reputation.

But this was not an answer, pretending that it was done by a human. It was not an answer at all. I just included what I tried into the question. I also included information where the code come from.

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    by the letter of the policy, no, that content isn't allowed. but i'm sure you can think of a way in which it wouldn't be seen as against the policy.
    – Kevin B
    Commented Feb 11 at 0:01
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    In essence.. posting what chatgpt responded with is not much more useful than posting what google results were returned. it's just not relevant information. If you want to post what you tried, that's fine... but if you don't understand why you tried it outside of chatgpt suggested it, its probably not useful anyway. If you do, then... the fact it was generated probably isn't relevant.
    – Kevin B
    Commented Feb 11 at 0:06
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    From the linked question: "All use of generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT and other LLMs) is banned when posting content on Stack Overflow. [...] NOTE: While the above text focuses on answers, because that's where we're experiencing the largest volume of such content, the ban applies to all content on Stack Overflow, except each user's profile content". However, also see meta.stackoverflow.com/q/422439
    – PM 2Ring
    Commented Feb 11 at 0:49

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Using AI to formulate a question for you would be against the rules, but asking a question about a code that was generated by LLM is not, especially if you attribute it properly.

However, a question about code generated by AI would probably not make for a very good question and it would attract a lot of downvotes. If your question is not about that particular code sample then don't include what ChatGPT suggested as that's not helpful at all.

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In this post: Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned there is written that AI generated content is banned on "answers"...But this was not an answer,...It was not an answer at all.

The policy says "All use of generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT1 and other LLMs) is banned when posting content on Stack Overflow. This includes "asking" the question to an AI generator then copy-pasting its output"

That would include questions. And if you ask a question about code generated by AI that would be ""asking" the question to an AI generator then copy-pasting its output".

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