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Dan Gillmor May 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.

Tom's Hardware

@dangillmor At least the users who made the platform what it is can withhold further contributions, which will mean that the value will rapidly stagnate. Fewer people will contribute new answers, and since AI submissions are now allowed, new answers will be low quality or wrong. Many existing answers will soon be out of date. But perhaps the Stack Overflow owners don't care; they can get a payout now, and if what they are selling turns rapidly into a lemon that's a future problem, or someone else's problem.