Dan GillmorMay 8, 2024

Stack Overflow joins Twitter and Reddit in demonstrating control-freak contempt for the people who made the platform what it is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

The company will probably get away with it, because people seem unable to fight back in effective ways, at least in numbers that make a difference.

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.

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Show threadJohn Breen
@dangillmor I will kick in $100 to the GoFundMe for a Federated replacement for Stack Overflow, running on non-proprietary platform, owned by those who post content and maintain the infrastructure. Collectively the people who post to and read SO could get this done in about 3 days.
Who's with me ?
May 8, 2024 at 9:43pmWeb
Show threadrugkMay 8, 2024

@jab01701mid @dangillmor Well… we already have something like #Discourse that can be perfectly used for the basic needs of SO…

Thing is, asking questions ans answers in the Q2A format in different communities is really something basic. And the most important "feature" probably is "just" #SEO – one needs to find the answer directly.
One does not really need advanced stuff like a federation here, it's fine if different communities are separated, as it's actually the case in #Stackexchange.

Show threadmirek kratochvilMay 8, 2024

@jab01701mid @dangillmor

+1