With the Reddit thing, it'd be easy to miss what's going on on StackOverflow. Basically:

1. Site owners allowed LLM-generated content.

2. Mods are on strike.

3. Also, back in March it turns out SO turned off the Creative Commons data pipe, which backs up the site to the Internet Archive, in an attempt to confound using SO for training data.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33dj/stack-overflow-moderators-are-striking-to-stop-garbage-ai-content-from-flooding-the-site

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/390106/moderation-strike-update-data-dumps-choosing-representatives-gpt-data-and-wh

Stack Overflow Moderators Are Striking to Stop Garbage AI Content From Flooding the Site

Volunteer moderators of the forum are striking over a policy that says AI-generated content can practically not be moderated.

@mttaggart There is an open source alternative to SO people should consider:
https://codidact.com/

Non-profit behind it:
https://codidact.org/

Codidact

@viktor Thanks! I've been looking for a noncommercial SO alternative for some time now. @mttaggart
@viktor ooh, does it federate? 👀 (not sure if I want it to, haha)
@lukas No, I don't think it is federated.