I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think you can do anything about it, they're technically hosting a copy of your content with attribution to you, which doesn't make you an owner of the data, in particular this clause:
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
gives them right to fuck their userbase in the ass by using the data in other services
@13xforever They're then selling that data to OpenAI which does not abide by this license. I'm not getting attribution there, and they're not licensing it as CC-SA-BY whch is required.
@ben I've often thought that a #Fediverse -based alternative to Quora would be very useful. It seems a Stack Overflow alternative would likely be a good opportunity.
@ben I recall hearing somewhere that all that content is a super permissive copy left license and it turns out it is! One that requires attribution and transformations to declare what was changed. I'm sure nothing will come of that but if any lawyers out there want to take up the banner, a person could make a strong argument that open AI is incapable of honoring the license. 🤔
It's just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you.
@ben Why do people care if someone like me gets your excellent answer to a coding question by typing my error message into Google (forwarding to SO) or into ChatGPT?
In neither situation were you getting paid. In both situations the middle man makes a buck. In both situations I’m thankful you spent time helping me.
Is it that with ChatGPT I don’t know who to thank?
@hunterhacker@ben with ChatGPT the answer gets turned into atoms and reconstructed, often with errors. It's not showing anyone's answer, it's showing a slop that approximates what it thinks looks most correct.
You have no one to thank, no one to correct, and ChatGPT couldn't start to tell you where the answer came from even if it was 99% from one person.