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.
Is this post just highlighting the policy thats existed for 2 years, or has the policy changed?
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.
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.
Does the harm that does to the community not factor into your moral calculus?
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?
Ok, but why would you know that and then go harm the community yourself too?
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.
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