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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.

benui mastodon instance

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Andrea Lazzarotto May 6, 2024

@chickfilla @nixCraft when you post something to Stack Overflow, you are licensing it with a Creative Commons license.

This open license is explicitly meant to facilitate sharing of knowledge and does not require permission from the author.

When someone decides to release content using an open license (which is great), they can't really complain when other people take advantage of said license.

I shared several of my programs as open source software. I won't get mad if people use them.

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drevil

@lazza @nixCraft Likewise, if I release my contribution out in the open and then I remove it, regardless if someone has a copy of it or not, I have the right to do so.

Nobody is arguing they shouldn't, nor that they can't. This is more about boycotting SO. Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you should, and more importantly, it doesn't mean you can't be criticized for it.