Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal
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Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

    • Lath@kbin.earth
      34·
      6 months ago

      This title doesn’t mention it, but it was reported earlier that users editing their past posts against this move get banned for it.

      • dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        28·
        6 months ago

        Need to make sure the diff is small enough. A tiny change that creates a bug or makes the answer effectively useless is much worse than sweeping changes

        • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          6 months ago

          But that leaves a lot of good code. The bad parts are very unlikely to appear in the AI results due to the amount of good code in the training set.

          • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            I got banned as expected. For a month. After I’m unbanned, I’ll edit a few characters every day. Not giving up. As unlawful it sounds, apparently you are not entitled to ask them to remove all your data.

    • reversebananimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      6 months ago

      I did on Friday and within 5 mins they suspended me and reverted them all. I knew they would so I didn’t care - I just did it so they’d see as many unhappy users as possible.

      I then deleted my account of over 10 years with over 50k reputation. Fuck stackoverflow.

      • Anon518@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        62·
        6 months ago

        I don’t understand why you and others are so mad about this. Stackoverflow is a great resource that takes significant time and money to maintain. I don’t have a problem with the maintainers making money by selling access to train AI on the data.

        Having Stackoverflow as an alternative to reddit is important so that people aren’t stuck using reddit.

        • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          6 months ago

          Yeah I don’t get this either. As long as they keep the main SO sites up and available, why should anyone care if they train AI on it? Deleting or defacing content is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

      • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        6 months ago

        Same reason for me. Take some of their time and say fuck you to them. But I will do crippling edits by single characters in one month time. I have time.