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Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED (www.wired.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ekZepp to c/technology

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Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

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[–] Roflmasterbigpimp 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Okay but why? It's not like it's personal Data or something. I don't get why people are mad ._.

EDIT: Ofcourse you can downvote me but I'd really like an answer, tho. The article is not very clear about this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Because it's original work they contributed for free. Lending others that kind of expertise and time, just that it get's used by a machine learning algorithm, which aims to reproduce this, without giving it back to them or the community in a similar free manner, feels violating.
Apart from that, creators feel ownership over their content and it feels wrong not to be asked what happens to it. (Although those probably wouldn't – or shouldn't – use SO anyway, as their content gets commercialised anyway by giving it SO for free.)

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp 4 points 7 months ago

Aaaaah okay that is somehting I can understand, thank you!

[–] platypus_plumba 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I get the feelings, but once they added the content in SO, it was no longer their content.

[–] demonsword 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it was no longer their content.

all posts were supposedly licensed under creative commons

[–] platypus_plumba 1 points 7 months ago

Do they have the non-commercial/no-derivative clause?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It gives worse answers and hallucinates a lot, problems specific to the model's design and not how much training data it gets. Even if it did work, it would be taking jobs away from actual programmers. It's a total net negative, users have nothing to benefit from this. Plus, since this is a community of programmers, they're all very much aware of these limitations and the lack of ethics of OpenAI.

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Except from the “taking Jobs part” I can understand you, thank you :D