Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

  • Roflmasterbigpimp
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    7 months ago

    Okay but why? It’s not like it’s personal Data or something. I don’t get why people are mad ._.

    EDIT: Ofcourse you can downvote me but I’d really like an answer, tho. The article is not very clear about this.

    • @[email protected]
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      107 months ago

      Because it’s original work they contributed for free. Lending others that kind of expertise and time, just that it get’s used by a machine learning algorithm, which aims to reproduce this, without giving it back to them or the community in a similar free manner, feels violating.
      Apart from that, creators feel ownership over their content and it feels wrong not to be asked what happens to it. (Although those probably wouldn’t – or shouldn’t – use SO anyway, as their content gets commercialised anyway by giving it SO for free.)

      • Roflmasterbigpimp
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        47 months ago

        Aaaaah okay that is somehting I can understand, thank you!

      • @platypus_plumba
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        17 months ago

        I get the feelings, but once they added the content in SO, it was no longer their content.

        • @demonsword
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          17 months ago

          it was no longer their content.

          all posts were supposedly licensed under creative commons

          • @platypus_plumba
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            17 months ago

            Do they have the non-commercial/no-derivative clause?

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      It gives worse answers and hallucinates a lot, problems specific to the model’s design and not how much training data it gets. Even if it did work, it would be taking jobs away from actual programmers. It’s a total net negative, users have nothing to benefit from this. Plus, since this is a community of programmers, they’re all very much aware of these limitations and the lack of ethics of OpenAI.

      • Roflmasterbigpimp
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        7 months ago

        Except from the “taking Jobs part” I can understand you, thank you :D