Carighan MaconarSep 3, 2024

Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned (on Stack Overflow)

https://lemmy.world/post/19359464

Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned (on Stack Overflow) - Lemmy.World

> All use of generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT1 and other LLMs) is banned when posting content on Stack Overflow. > This includes “asking” the question to an AI generator then copy-pasting its output as well as using an AI generator to “reword” your answers.

Show threadbreadsmasher
Is this post just highlighting the policy thats existed for 2 years, or has the policy changed?
Sep 3, 2024 at 10:29amWeb
Show threadCarighan MaconarSep 3, 2024
It has now been finalized as of yesterday, from what I understand. Previously it was a work-in-progress policy change they were still unsure about, and now it’s decided that this is the way going forward.
Show threadunexposedhazardSep 3, 2024
Yeah this is just them trying to prevent model collapse (stemming from pollution of training data by ai garbage). The moral thing to do here is to not give a fuck and upload as much AI garbage as possible to poison their dataset. Fucking assholes.
Show threadAatubeSep 3, 2024
“Avoid model collapse” aka “avoid giving garbage answers”. If they’re gonna use a lot of energy to train an AI, why not at least make the product good-ish?
Show threadunexposedhazardSep 3, 2024
If you allow them to make money with their garbage, they will be incentivized to keep going. I want them to go bankrupt.
Show threadFeathercrownSep 3, 2024
Does the harm that does to the community not factor into your moral calculus?
Show threadunexposedhazardSep 3, 2024

I does factor that in and my answer is to abandon ship or mutiny. By contributing to their ecosystem you validate their sense of not having done anything wrong.

As we have seen with reddit, the next step here is closing off API access and banning searchengines and crawlers from using the sites resources. At that point there is little value left in the platform just like with reddit.

Show threadJackbyDevSep 3, 2024
Stack Overflow only pretends to care about their community and I’m tired of contributing the greater good of the technical community at large. Stack Overflow has a track record of ignoring Meta. Why even have it if you’re not going to listen?
Show threadFeathercrownSep 3, 2024
Ok, but why would you know that and then go harm the community yourself too?
Show threadJackbyDevSep 3, 2024
I’m not advocating for maliciously using AI generated content to make Stack Overflow worse, I’m just saying I feel no motivation to seek questions to answer there nor to waste my time posting good questions there that I research and find no duplicates of only for them to be closed.
Show threadFeathercrownSep 3, 2024
Ah, I confused you with the person I had originally replied to