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nixCraft 🐧May 6, 2024

Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.

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drevil May 6, 2024

@nixCraft
Edit: As pointed out by others, still delete your answers as a form of protest if you wish. OpenAI may still get the data, but it will harm SO.

Edit 2: welp, looks like that might be off the table either way
https://m.benui.ca/@ben/112396505994216742

to be completely fair, I would be incredibly surprised (and I am trying to be charitable due to lack of concrete evidence) if OpenAI hasn't scanned every single SO question and answer ever made already. This was probably made so they would have ChatGPT answers on popular questions and stuff like that, which of course is still bad

ben 🇵🇸 ui (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers. Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community. So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message. Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

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Artemesia

@chickfilla @nixCraft

That's not the point. Going forward stack overflow will be polluted with a bunch of AI "hallucinated" garbage, where hallucinated means "made shit up in order to produce a plausible answer".

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drevil May 6, 2024

@artemesia @nixCraft well, yes, that's what I meant with my last sentence. The point I was trying to make is that the data collection aspect of this would happen regardless, and if you want to be more cynical about this, there's nothing stopping SO from keeping your data after you delete your account. Though if your answers become unavailable on the site after doing so, that would be a reason why since it would hurt the site (aside from the obvious reason of not wanting to be associated with SO ofc)