I see the "/s" but I actually do wonder if integrating the "prompt" behavior into the question box would help cut down on the absolutely staggering number of duplicate questions. Regrettably, I'm not enough of a GPT expert to know what percentage of the time it would generate gibberish thus making the duplication question problem _worse_
Pretty sure they already show suggestions when the user is typing the question topic, though idk if they catch much. I guess the question here is whether some kind of AI would pop up more relevant suggestions, all the way to “your question is already answered, doofus”.
Copilot themselves probably swiped it all already, since SO answers are licensed under CC-BY-SA, which to Github is equal to ‘just take it all and ignore the author’. With the possible small difference that the uploader doesn't agree to the Github ToS.
It would be interesting to see how many times a copilot competitor trained off it gave correct code vs wrong code for a given case
I would suspect that would differ whether it was trained on the question's code versus any accepted answer's (or most upvotes?) code