Reddit did almost the same and don't forget guys to delete your Reddit account
this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
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If we can't delete our questions and answers, can we poison the well by uploading masses of shitty questions and answers? If they like AI we could have it help us generate them.
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I am not deleting anything. They can have all of my poorly written misleading answers.
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I don't think a lot of people are crying
Data should be socialized and machine learning algorithms should be nationalized for public use.
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Were they trying to protect ChatGPT from all the bad and convoluted answers?
While I think the reaction of StackOverflow is not good, I don't understand the users either.
EDIT: seems like the language model won't be free, I understand then.
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Reddit/Stack/AI are the latest examples of an economic system where a few people monetize and get wealthy using the output of the very many.
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Anyone care to explain why people would care that they posted to a public forum that they don't own, with content that is now further being shared for public benefit?
The argument that it's your content becomes false as soon as you shared it with the world.
Lol it ain't for public benefit unless it's a FOSS model with which I'd have no issue
Well no, when you post something it is public and out of your control
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I can only really speak to reddit, but I think this applies to all of the user generated content websites. The original premise, that everyone agreed to, was the site provides a space and some tools and users provide content to fill it. As information gets added, it becomes a valuable resource for everyone. Ads and other revenue streams become a necessary evil in all this, but overall directly support the core use case.
Now that content is being packaged into large language models to be either put behind a paywall or packed into other non-freely available services. Since they no longer seem interested in supporting the model we all agreed on, I see no reason to continue adding value and since they provided tools to remove content I may as well use them.
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It's not shared for public benefit, though. OpenAI, despite the Open in their name, charges for access to their models. You either pay with money or (meta)data, depending on the model.
Legally, sure. You signed away your rights to your answers when you joined the forum. Morally, though?
People are pissed that SO, that was actively encouraging Mods to use AI detection software to prevent any LLM usage in the posted questions and answers, are now selling the publicly accessible data, made by their users for free, to a closed-source for-profit entity that refuses to open itself up.
Basically the same story as with reddit.
Agreed. As you said it's a similar situation as with reddit, where I decided to delete my comments.
My reasoning is that those contributions were given under the premise that everybody was sharing to help each other.
Now that premise has changed: the large tech companies are only taking and the platform providers are changing the rules aswell to profit from it.
So as a result I packed my things and left, in case of reddit to here.
That said I think both views are valid and I wouldn't fault those that think differently.
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I got an email ban.
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I despise this use of mod power in response to a protest. It's our content to be sabotaged if we want - if Stack Overlords disagree then to hell with them.
I'll add Stack Overflow to my personal ban list, just below Reddit.
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