Taggart Jun 12, 2023

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.

Show threadMastodon MigrationJun 13, 2023
@mttaggart Did all the tech billionaires just catch the same virus?
Show threadTaggart 
@mastodonmigration I would venture that the same brainworms that lead one to be morally bankrupt enough to become a billionaire also lead to this behavior.
Jun 13, 2023 at 12:55amWeb
Show threadExtinction (our fate)Jun 13, 2023
@mttaggart @mastodonmigration I think the VC oligarchs are putting as you say "brainworms" of fear and greed into those they might have bailed out in the past.