mccMay 8, 2024

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

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

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

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 thread[email protected]May 8, 2024
@mcc So developers will stop sharing information on #StackOverflow and future #Copilot and friends will be forever stuck in the past, answering questions about historically relevant frameworks and languages.
#LLM #StuckOverflow
Show threadcaitpMay 9, 2024
@chris @mcc don't worry, they'll probably just stick bots in every matrix/gitter/slack/discord/zulip they can find and train models on that instead
Show threadnot a martian, honest
@caitp @chris @mcc "so, why exactly do I have to wear a fursuit to fix my issues with systemd?"
May 9, 2024 at 7:20amWeb
Show thread[email protected]May 9, 2024
@kyonshi @caitp @mcc When I made this years resolution to really embrace systemd for a year or two I didn’t know about this perk!
Tangentially: Wherever part of a system you are in, systemd pops up. Even in this tread.