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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.