For Europeans wanting to remove their data from #stackoverflow, wouldn't a GDPR deletion request do the trick? I wish we had real data privacy laws in my country.
This sucks and #StackOverflow should never have embraced generative AI. But also don't go removing existing answers because you don't like the policy because that sucks too.
LLMs looting the internet will lead to a significant increase in insularity, barriers to entry, suspicion, and siloing by its users.
Expect to see an increase in invite-only forums and communities which vet everyone who applies for access to make sure they aren’t a scraper in a human suit. An increase in experts refusing to help newbies, for fear of their help being copied, mulched, and resold by massive corporations. A decrease in the “social” part of the net.
A sales guy from #StackOverflow has been trying to get me to talk about their enterprise offering for a developer internal platform - I've been mostly ignoring him, but now I'll just say "really not interested"
@mcc So developers will stop sharing information on #StackOverflow and future #Copilot and friends will be forever stuck in the past, answering questions about historically relevant frameworks and languages. #LLM#StuckOverflow
Just came up with a new analogy I'm rather proud of: LLMs are digital compost heaps. They decompose whatever you hurl in and turn it into artificial excrement.
Also I'm moving from StackExchange to Codidact. If I'm going to do any more unpaid labour it's going to be for a not-for-profit, rather than a for-profit company. Feeding that work into a digital compost heap is the push I needed.
on the one hand, it feels a lot like the company is being stripped for parts. on the other, openai was probably doing it anyway, so now at least they get paid for it
This is what you get when you try to delete your content from #StackOverflow: they treat you like a criminal defacing their site, rather than as a human being with privacy rights.
Will be saving this conversation and sharing publicly. Your move, Stack Overflow…
@engarneering oh this is just rich. What I assume is some random high level #StackOverflow moderator on a power trip suggests that the CC license is only a suggestion and it would be infeasible to follow.
I believe anyone who posts complex and complicated solutions for people who ask for help on logging to a console are sociopaths and most likely evil. #programming#code#stackoverflow#rant
I was working on a problem today where I needed to pick out a department and a sub issue that were attached to each other as a single code in a comment.
I first went to use the traditional SUSTRING(comment_string, 1, 5) IN (my list of codes) but it was slow.
So off to work, I learned something new via #stackoverflow and learned to make a sarge-able LIKE with what ever I want in the narrower results.
I like how 15 years ago, a question on StackOverFlow would get 3k upvotes, 21 answers (with even more upvotes),
and all be "How do I copy a file in Python?"
Today, you'll need to be very specific and watch for 10 other questions that remind of yours and be marked as a copy question.
#ChatGPT generates less vulnerable code than that found on #StackOverflow, researchers say.
However, it still introduces dozens of unique vulnerabilities in the code it generates.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15600
Alright, so many companies are using user or customer data for training #AI without consent that I think I'm going to have to make an ongoing thread to document them all. 🤖
Here we go! 1/x
Starting out with #Reddit who have sold user data to another company, that will use it to train AI: