Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal
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Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

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

  • @Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    SO was in decline anyway. Most answers you’ll find are several years old and outdated, because some idiot thought the new ones are duplicates.

    There’s been a new thing (for the past two years anyways) where some power tripping user would edit the highest rated answer, causing new users to fail to get recognition.

    So a new user answers a old question with the latest way to do something based on new language specs… And they’d get 1-2 votes.

    Why even contribute then?

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6•6 months ago

      To help others? That’s why I did it. Someone editing that into the highest upvoted answer is good because more people will see it.

      Unless you care about karma, how is this bad?