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@jlsigman @martin_piper @ben

... Is it stealing the answers off Stack Overflow any more than people do by using the answers?

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JLSigman

@atatassault @martin_piper @ben Yup! AI is theft at this point. Expensive, world killing, water sucking theft. Enjoy your dead planet!

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@jlsigman @martin_piper @ben

The planet was already on a course for death before we figured out how to make useful brain analogues on silicon hardware. Also, if and when we shift completely to carbon neutral power, the amount of electricity that AI consumes (which will only go down as processing becomes increasingly more power efficient) won't matter

Inertial Invites

@atatassault @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben
"useful brain analogues" is doing a heck of a lot of heavy lifting there. I'd almost say it's a load-bearing error.

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@bananarama @intransitivelie @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben

Deep Learning, Machine Learning, LLM, etc all mean the same thing: Neural Network AI

Iridium Zeppelin

@atatassault @intransitivelie @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben
The question isn't about the technology used, its about how the data is gathered and transformed*.

Additionally, each of those terms have distinct technical meanings. They're not the same.

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@atatassault @bananarama @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben
Ok, everyone can now safely ignore you because you have no idea what you're talking about.

Martin Piper (he/him) πŸ’™πŸ’›πŸŒ»πŸ’‰ replied to Inertial

@intransitivelie @atatassault @bananarama@mstdn.social @jlsigman @ben@m.benui.ca your denial is not factually correct. You've not provided any valid argument. Your denial without any reliable claims can be safely ignored.

pgcd

@atatassault @bananarama @intransitivelie @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben

> "Deep Learning, Machine Learning, LLM, etc all mean the same thing: Neural Network AI"

Chatgpt, is that you?

Iridium Zeppelin replied to Martin Piper (he/him) πŸ’™πŸ’›πŸŒ»πŸ’‰

@martin_piper @atatassault @intransitivelie @jlsigman @ben I can't prove a negative, try again.

To anyone reading this after the fact: the evidence is that LLMs are notoriously bad for hallucinating attribution. There would need to be some pretty major changes to get attribution to work accurately and reliably, and this doesn't even cover the share-alike licensing issues.

Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette replied to Martin Piper (he/him) πŸ’™πŸ’›πŸŒ»πŸ’‰

@martin_piper @bananarama @atatassault @intransitivelie @jlsigman @ben

The number of commercial LLMs or generative AIs in general that do attribution of their sources as licenced is currently 0. The entire industry have been able to get away with it for now several years. Do you expect stackexchange to be radically different in a positive way and not communicate about it?

clacke: looking for something πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡­πŸ‡°πŸ’™πŸ’›

@atatassault It's useful, but it's a stretch to call it a brain analogue.

AI that is useful, usually is useful because it is different from how our brains work, even if the algorithm fell out of an AI lab while thinking about brains.

@martin_piper @jlsigman @intransitivelie @ben

D2

@atatassault @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben it’s different, therefore litigatable as copyright infringement.

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@InkomTech @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben

You'd need to sue basically every single corporation ever that does its own coding, as I GUARANTEE you that they all have code an engineer got from Stack Overflow.

D2

@atatassault @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben you’re missing the β€˜this is an unauthorized use of material I wrote and therefore retain copyright of’. Folks reading SO != AI training, just like theaters and dvds!= streaming revenue.

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@InkomTech @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben

People reading and using code from SO by mouse and keyboard is not conceptually or mechanically different than using a computer to automatically do it.

D2

@atatassault @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong. Again, a clickthru license isn’t remotely strong enough to strip someone of their ownership. Copyright is a motherfucker. Over and over, creatives have clawed back IP and forced a renegotiation due to new media, new venues, new uses.

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@InkomTech @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben

So you gonna be the one to sue every single corporation? Because they all use SO code. Because people are lazy.

D2

@atatassault @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben SMH. read what I wrote again. Peer forum use is a different use. While that would likely survive as released by acceptance of the TOS, new uses of copyright (AI training) likely won’t.

D2 replied to D2

@atatassault @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben odds seem high that you don’t understand copyright. Good luck coming up to speed on it; my responses aren’t for you, but so anyone understanding copyright law can evaluate / discuss the risks in investing in this AI land grab and of SO’s move. Good luck.

Martin Piper (he/him) πŸ’™πŸ’›πŸŒ»πŸ’‰ replied to D2

@InkomTech @atatassault @jlsigman @ben I understand it better than you obviously don't. You don't own your public posts on such a website, the company does.

Ahto!

@atatassault @InkomTech @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben

For the most part, if people are using code from SO, they probably should be providing some attribution to it within their own code base. How that is licensed and used is another discussion.

For the original poster's issue, I think SO is riding a pretty dangerous line around how they have repurposed someone's comment regardless of its affiliation with OpenAI now. This could cause problems around DMCA's safe harbour clause and their own protection. However, their actions towards this user alone are pretty scummy and not only sets a precedent that people shouldn't trust them but that they actually abusive towards their users.

In relation to AI and scraping of data, to allow such actions to be accepted and made legal would then bring the whole concept of ownership into question and one I don't think I want to traverse.

As for "Are you gonna sue every single corporation?" rhetoric.

While I understand the cynicism, I believe it is fine for people to make it clear when a corporation has done something reprehensible especially when it is clear when that it is the case. This is one of those cases and people distrusting how data is gathered and not even attributed is also reprehensible.

I think it is probably better to encourage people to form some collective and lobby for changes while potentially going after said corporations when they do scummy acts or steal that group's work.

@atatassault @InkomTech @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben

For the most part, if people are using code from SO, they probably should be providing some attribution to it within their own code base. How that is licensed and used is another discussion.

For the original poster's issue, I think SO is riding a pretty dangerous line around how they have repurposed someone's comment regardless of its affiliation with OpenAI now. This could cause problems around DMCA's safe harbour clause and their own protection....

Martin Piper (he/him) πŸ’™πŸ’›πŸŒ»πŸ’‰

@InkomTech @atatassault @jlsigman @ben it's not a click through license when you have an account. It does does mean they own the technical content of the posts and can do what they like with it.

Nasado replied to Martin Piper (he/him) πŸ’™πŸ’›πŸŒ»πŸ’‰

@martin_piper @InkomTech @atatassault @jlsigman @ben In other posts in this thread, specifically mastodon.social/@martin_piper/ , you correctly cite the relevant section of SO's Terms of Service to establish that nobody can revoke the permissions they granted to Stack Exchange Inc. Unfortunately, it seems you were only skimming, since you missed the part before that where they establish what those permissions are:

> You agree that any and all content [...] that you provide to the public Network (collectively, β€œSubscriber Content”), is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (CC BY-SA 4.0),

Now, since you're the copyright expert here, kindly explain how it is that Stack Exchange Inc "owns" the content if it is bound by a license. Who would enforce that license? Who would be paid damages if the license were violated?

@martin_piper @InkomTech @atatassault @jlsigman @ben In other posts in this thread, specifically mastodon.social/@martin_piper/ , you correctly cite the relevant section of SO's Terms of Service to establish that nobody can revoke the permissions they granted to Stack Exchange Inc. Unfortunately, it seems you were only skimming, since you missed the part before that where they establish what those permissions are:

D2

@atatassault @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben let me amend: the strongest way a creative person can lose copyright: work for hire.

I ain’t never gotten paid by SO. What I write remains mine.

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