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"[The moderator crackdown is] 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

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

h/t @dangillmor

ben ,
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@molly0xfff quote tooted by molly white

write that on my gravestone yus

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@molly0xfff @dangillmor

It's kind of ironic they ban using generative AI to post on Stack Overflow too. They don't want their data getting tainted I guess

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/policy-generative-ai-e-g-chatgpt-is-banned?cb=1

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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

Email from Stack Overflow. Text reads: Hello, We're writing in reference to your Stack Overflow account: https://stackoverflow.com/users/392350/benui You have recently removed or defaced content from your posts. Please note that once you post a question or answer to this site, those posts become part of the collective efforts of others who have also contributed to that content. Posts that are potentially useful to others should not be removed except under extraordinary circumstances. Even if the post is no longer useful to the original author, that information is still beneficial to others who may run into similar problems in the future - this is the underlying philosophy of Stack Exchange. Extensive deletions take a lot of effort to repair; please read "I’ve thought better of my question; can I delete it?" for possible alternatives. Because of the amount of disruption these incidents can cause, we have placed your account on hold for 7 days while we reach out to you to avoid any further misunderstandings. Once this matter has been resolved, your reputation score will be restored and your account will resume as normal. We sincerely hope this is just a misunderstanding, but we understand that you may have an exceptional reason to remove this content. If so, let us know by replying to this message. Regards, Stack Overflow Moderation Team
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    ben OP ,
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    I'm requesting that my questions and answers be permanently deleted under GDPR.

    ben OP ,
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    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 OP ,
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    @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.

    https://m.benui.ca/@ben/112401140834395509

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