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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Time to download the last dump: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

E: Seeding.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

While I think the reaction of StackOverflow is not good, I don't understand the users either.

EDIT: seems like the language model won't be free, I understand then.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

OpenAI is a terribly misleading name.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

OpenUpYourWalletforAI

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

RIP in pieces Stack Overflow

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Aren’t a lot of answers outdated on stackoverflow?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I will answer some questions with my old account using gpt 4 to poison the data.

If you want to poison SO a little at the same time providing valid answers that help users, use outlook.com email domain for new accounts. It seems to not have anti throwaway countermeasures while being accepted by SO. And it seems fitting to bash the corporate with the corporate.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

lol wow this is going even more poorly than I thought it would, and I thought my kneejerk reaction to the initial announcement was quite pessimistic.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

If we can't delete our questions and answers, can we poison the well by uploading masses of shitty questions and answers? If they like AI we could have it help us generate them.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Poison the well by using AI-generated comments and answers. There isn't currently a way to reliably determine if content is human or AI-generated, and training AI on AI is the equivalent of inbreeding.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thing just like reddit, but now in professional community

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am not deleting anything. They can have all of my poorly written misleading answers.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can't quit, you're fired!!!!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (20 children)

Instead of solely deleting content, what if authors had instead moved their content/answers to something self-owned? Can SO even claim ownership legally of the content on their site? Seems iffy in my own, ignorant take.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (5 children)

For years, the site had a standing policy that prevented the use of generative AI in writing or rewording any questions or answers posted. Moderators were allowed and encouraged to use AI-detection software when reviewing posts. Beginning last week, however, the company began a rapid about-face in its public policy towards AI.

I listened to an episode of The Daily on AI, and the stuff they fed into to engines included the entire Internet. They literally ran out of things to feed it. That's why YouTube created their auto-generated subtitles - literally, so that they would have more material to feed into their LLMs. I fully expect reddit to be bought out/merged within the next six months or so. They are desperate for more material to feed the machine. Everything is going to end up going to an LLM somewhere.

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