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.

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@mttaggart it's an interesting battle between the AI companies and other tech companies/organisations with a lot of casualties.

AI companies make a ton of money and scrape the entire internet for training material.

Tech companies see an increase in cost for infrastructure due to scraping and a lot of opportunity cost due to the AI financial bubble.

The casualties are users, their content and everyone using APIs.

Which is weird. It's all a battle about money.

Jun 13, 2023 at 11:02amWeb