Gregory's ServerStack Overflow's deal with "Open"AI is prompting the site's contributors to remove their posts and close their accounts. Good for them.
The "AI" cartel is telling the people who created and populated the open web that they were suckers.
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@tehstu @dangillmor I poisoned the well on Reddit before deleting my account. I rewrote all my posts and answers with seemingly cogent text that is nothing more than gibberish before waiting a few weeks and then deleted my account. I know they could rollback all my changes, what I wrote before might have already been scrapped, but at least I won't create more content for free and they'll have to find out if my edits were for real or not, they'll lose time and/or money for it. I'm happy with that result. @dangillmor They could simply be the best question and answer site in the world, but it’s never enough, is it?  @dangillmor@mastodon.social  I can't see how this deal is in _anyone's_ interest. OpenAI _need_ high-context, unpoisoned data to train on, and even if they correctly keep tabs on what responses are AI-generated, the effect will be to reduce the amount of human-generated expert replies. Stack Overflow's "product" isn't answers but expertise. If OpenAI could replace that, why bother with StackOverflow, and if not, Stack Overflow just put a big question mark behind their main selling point. |
@dangillmor Agreed. Even if the content is already scraped, the point is no further contributions from users.