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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI
partnership
Author : anigbrowl
Score : 20 points
Date : 2024-05-08 22:33 UTC (27 minutes ago)
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| chmaynard wrote:
| Stack Overflow has been assimilated. Resistance is futile. It
| served a useful purpose but now it's part of the glorious AI
| universe to come. Rest in peace.
| fardo wrote:
| This bodes poorly for the future of SO.
|
| One of the reasons that Quora today is absolutely unusable is
| that it no longer is a curated discussion between internet users
| and knowledgeable people, but AI spamming the site with swarms of
| low-quality questions, and AI answering those questions with
| swarms of low-quality answers. I think it's likely that Stack
| Overflow will end up following a similar pattern.
| casenmgreen wrote:
| I left some time ago, and I'm very glad I did.
|
| I left because the staff behaved in a disingenuous manner.
|
| I found when leaving, as mentioned in the article, that you are
| not allowed to delete accepted posts, so you can't delete your
| content, should you come to think SO objectionable and wish your
| content not to be there.
|
| I can't see now why anyone would spend time posting answers
| there.
| zerocrates wrote:
| I don't love them getting into bed with AI, but also don't
| think it's unreasonable for them to not allow angry users to
| blank out their prior submissions.
|
| The whole deal was that you basically donated your posts and
| CC-licensed them. I wouldn't begrudge Wikipedia from similarly
| dealing with upset editors who went around blanking the
| articles they contributed to or reverting all their changes.
| ProjectArcturis wrote:
| Is there anyone who makes stackoverflow their first stop for
| programming questions anymore?
| int_19h wrote:
| Google ranks it pretty high, so it is the de facto first stop
| for many.
| arp242 wrote:
| dupe:
|
| _StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in
| protest against OpenAI_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297027 - May 2024 (103
| comments)
| extheat wrote:
| I am thankful we have LLMs so we _don 't_ have to deal with SO.
| Ideally, as little as possible. SO can be a pretty toxic place
| filled with elitism and care for procedure over actually helping
| people, which is not totally unreasonable from their standpoint
| but it's definitely not what people are visiting the site for.
| Quite ironically, one of the major complaints I get is that LLMs
| output wrong answers here and there, ignoring that many of the
| answers on SO are also completely wrong or irrelevant to the core
| question being asked. And mind you, also outdated (I regularly
| have to click through the sorting to make sure answers are
| actually still relevant).
|
| If we could merge the two to get the best of both worlds, and
| have LLMs that know how to write well _and_ are validated by
| humans on the site, that would be great. Maybe not great for the
| folks looking to accrue internet points but absolutely great for
| users.
| astrodust wrote:
| It is nearly impossible to delete an accepted answer you don't
| want to have any more. I've had several which are wildly out of
| date and incorrect now and I don't want to update them, but the
| mods refuse to remove them.
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