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

submitted 6 months ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Time to edit all my answers :)

[–] Lath@kbin.earth 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This title doesn't mention it, but it was reported earlier that users editing their past posts against this move get banned for it.

[–] dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Need to make sure the diff is small enough. A tiny change that creates a bug or makes the answer effectively useless is much worse than sweeping changes

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But that leaves a lot of good code. The bad parts are very unlikely to appear in the AI results due to the amount of good code in the training set.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I got banned as expected. For a month. After I'm unbanned, I'll edit a few characters every day. Not giving up. As unlawful it sounds, apparently you are not entitled to ask them to remove all your data.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure they keep the revision history, so there’s no point in it

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago

Correct. They banned people and then undid the changes.

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I did on Friday and within 5 mins they suspended me and reverted them all. I knew they would so I didn't care - I just did it so they'd see as many unhappy users as possible.

I then deleted my account of over 10 years with over 50k reputation. Fuck stackoverflow.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same reason for me. Take some of their time and say fuck you to them. But I will do crippling edits by single characters in one month time. I have time.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I'd assume they would provide a backup from before the announcement for the training.

[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why you and others are so mad about this. Stackoverflow is a great resource that takes significant time and money to maintain. I don't have a problem with the maintainers making money by selling access to train AI on the data.

Having Stackoverflow as an alternative to reddit is important so that people aren't stuck using reddit.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah I don’t get this either. As long as they keep the main SO sites up and available, why should anyone care if they train AI on it? Deleting or defacing content is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.