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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

For years, the site had a standing policy that prevented the use of generative AI in writing or rewording any questions or answers posted. Moderators were allowed and encouraged to use AI-detection software when reviewing posts. Beginning last week, however, the company began a rapid about-face in its public policy towards AI.

I listened to an episode of The Daily on AI, and the stuff they fed into to engines included the entire Internet. They literally ran out of things to feed it. That's why YouTube created their auto-generated subtitles - literally, so that they would have more material to feed into their LLMs. I fully expect reddit to be bought out/merged within the next six months or so. They are desperate for more material to feed the machine. Everything is going to end up going to an LLM somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think auto generated subtitles were to fulfil a FCC requirement, some years ago, for content subtitling. It has however turned out super useful for LLM feeding.

[–] Tehdastehdas 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Did it really fulfil the requirement?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like Homer Simpson eating all the food at the buffet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or when he went to Hell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Hell

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] stoly 2 points 6 months ago

There really isn’t much in the way of detection. It’s a big problem in schools and universities and the plagiarism detectors can’t sense AI.