Stack Overflow and other similar forums are used commonly by developers to seek answers for their software development as well as privacy-related concerns. Recently, ChatGPT has been used as an alternative to generate code or produce responses to developers' questions. In this paper, we aim to understand developers' privacy challenges by evaluating the types of privacy-related questions asked on Stack Overflow. We then conduct a comparative analysis between the accepted responses given by Stack Overflow users and the responses produced by ChatGPT for those extracted questions to identify if ChatGPT could serve as a viable alternative. Our results show that most privacy-related questions are related to choice/consent, aggregation, and identification. Furthermore, our findings illustrate that ChatGPT generates similarly correct responses for about 56% of questions, while for the rest of the responses, the answers from Stack Overflow are slightly more accurate than ChatGPT.

翻译：Stack Overflow 及其他类似论坛常被开发者用于寻求软件开发及隐私相关问题的解答。近期，ChatGPT 被用作替代方案来生成代码或回复开发者的问题。本文旨在通过分析 Stack Overflow 上隐私相关问题的类型，了解开发者面临的隐私挑战。随后，我们对 Stack Overflow 用户提供的认可答案与 ChatGPT 针对这些提取问题生成的回复进行了对比分析，以判断 ChatGPT 是否可作为可行的替代方案。结果表明，大多数隐私问题涉及选择/同意、数据聚合和身份识别。此外，我们的发现显示，对于约 56% 的问题，ChatGPT 生成的回复正确性相似；而对于其余回复，Stack Overflow 的答案略优于 ChatGPT。