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A virtual war broke out between the administration on the popular online forum for programmers Stack Overflow and users. The reason for this was Stack Overflow's partnership with OpenAI to train artificial intelligence models using forum user posts as an example.
Not everyone liked this. After this partnership was announced, many Stack Overflow users began deleting or changing their questions and answers. Thus, they wanted to prevent the use of their materials for training ChatGPT.
However, the Stack Overflow administration did not like this user behavior. As a result, forum moderators began to punish by blocking users who resort to deleting or editing their previous posts. While users say they have the right to remove their own content from the forum based on the “right to be forgotten,” Stack Overflow admins refer to the forum’s terms of use (which everyone famously agrees to abide by, but almost never read when registering ). The terms contain an irrevocable ownership of all content.
Users who object to their content being used to train ChatGPT are particularly angry about Stack Overflow's rapid policy changes regarding generative AI. For years, the site had a standing rule that prohibited the use of generative artificial intelligence to write or rephrase any questions or answers. Moderators were allowed and encouraged to use software to identify AI when reviewing posts. However, the company recently changed its policy regarding AI.
Stack Overflow user Ben posted on Mastodon about his experience editing his most successful answers to try to avoid his work being used for OpenAI purposes. Among other things, he wrote:
“[Moderator crackdown] is just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's only a matter of time before all your messages on Discord, Twitter, etc. will be assembled, modeled and sold back to you.”
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