There is a virtual war going on between the administration and users on the popular Internet forum for programmers Stack Overflow. The reason for this was Stack Overflow's partnership with OpenAI to train artificial intelligence models using forum users' messages.
Not everyone liked this. After the announcement of this partnership, many Stack Overflow users began deleting or editing their questions and answers. They wanted to prevent their materials from being used to train ChatGPT.
However, such behavior by users did not please the Stack Overflow administration. As a result, forum moderators began punishing users by blocking those who resort to deleting or editing their previous messages. While users say they have the right to delete their own content from the forum, relying on the "right to be forgotten," Stack Overflow administration refers to the forum's terms of use (which, as you know, everyone agrees to comply with but almost never reads when registering). The terms contain a clause about the irrevocable right to own all content.
Users who disagree with their content being used to train ChatGPT are particularly outraged by the rapid changes in Stack Overflow's policy regarding generative AI. For many years, the site had a constant rule that prohibited the use of generative artificial intelligence to write or reformulate any questions or answers. Moderators were allowed and recommended to use software to detect AI when reviewing messages. However, the company recently changed its policy regarding AI.
Stack Overflow user Ben posted on Mastodon a story about his experience editing his most successful answers to try to avoid his work being used for OpenAI purposes. Among other things, he wrote:
"[Moderator repression] just reminds you that everything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's only a matter of time before all your posts on Discord, Twitter, etc. will be collected, fed into a model, and sold back to you."
Source: tomshardware
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