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submitted 7 months ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

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[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 110 points 7 months ago

I feel so bad for the long term contributors :/

The only good thing I could think off, is that someone is going to create a defederated stackoverflow alternative?

Or something similar, to bring back real human interaction...

If this wasn't enough, This will probably raise war against corporated AI.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 93 points 7 months ago

It won't. Some people will scream bloody murder, most people will ignore it.

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 Most answers you'll find are several years old and outdated, because some idiot thought the new ones are duplicates.

So now a few people will leave, the spamming idiots will keep spamming the platform with low effort nonsensical answers and its relevance will dwindle just a bit faster.

Look at Reddit. Last year there was a huge outrage and today it's pretty much the same as before.

Most people don't care. Most people feel so powerless, that they'll accept every privacy scandal, every exploitive business strategy, every sellout of their platform.

[-] Hackworth@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

Is Reddit pretty much the same? From my limited perspective, a lot of the genuine contributors left, quietly or otherwise. I've found it much more difficult to have an interesting discussion on there since the API debacle. Most of Reddit was already lurkers and bots, so all it took was a significant proportion of the tiny minority of quality contributors to take their time elsewhere for reddit to become a complete dumpster fire.

[-] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 29 points 7 months ago

Anecdotally, pretty much every time I'm searching for information on reddit a number of comments are redacted or even the op is deleted. The only reason I didn't purge my comments is in case someone might find them helpful.

[-] Hackworth@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I have all my deleted comments in a csv (with context links), which I plan on fine-tuning an LLM with just for fun. I guess if there's a platform that'll accept it, I'd be happy to upload it. Mostly I wanted to make sure the info remains free for everyone, including AI researchers.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Hugging Face is the usual platform for sharing datasets and models.

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