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We talk a lot about the Reddit thing, but can we also talk about the moderation strike at Stack Exchange? (meta.stackexchange.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel this one is even more impactful for those of us who work in technology, as well as all other areas that have a lot of resources in SE like linguistics and physics. It seems like most people are not aware that it is going on and how important their demands are. Imagine working in software without Stack Overflow, or having it overrun by chatGPT "wrong but convincing" answers.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A strike I admire since it is in opposition to AI generated content. One of the mods makes a good point when they point out Stack Exchange is a site which is designed around real, substantive, quality answers from real professionals in their fields answering questions with the upmost truth. They go on to explain that AI functions as a parrot (not unlike radlibs who follow the CIAs every word) uncritically forwarding information regardless of it's accuracy or even logical sense, which contradicts the site's current purpose in the information space. They go on to say this would reduce the value of the site to 0. I believe it would simply transform the site into Facebook without families. (All bullshit, no IRL social connection)

Regardless, solidarity with the striking workers.