@DrGravitas @Craftycat @nixCraft I was thinking about that too. The issue I have is that, if this partnership is done to ease the integration of ChatGPT into StackOverflow, they will include ai generated answers first regardless of if people delete their posts or not.

By removing your answers at least you decrease the value of SO, though given the very, very small portion of their user base that cares about this, I don't think it will affect them much.

I guess if you want to give them the middle finger for this, than go ahead, but truth be told, it's unlikely this will cause any significant changes on their behavior. Most people I'd imagine will actually be thrilled about ChatGPT integration, since for a lot of people all that it means is that they might get automated replies without waiting for a human, regardless of the quality of the answers they might receive (assuming they are able to tell if they are bad or not to begin with).

Either way, it's a very bleak future I'm afraid, and the only saving grace I can think of is that the answers become so repetitive and terrible, people just revert back to forums/alterantives to SO. Or, you know, just reading documentation when possible.