@tieflingdiotima@alttexthalloffame@spaceninja something I help with every time I can in case you don't feel like with enough energy to do it yourself is reply to #ALT4me requests. You tag your post with it, somebody helps and then you can edit the original with the provided description or use it as a base.
@stefan@cheeaun I really love that you can click on the image to get an even bigger modal with full (?) size image. Great to transcribe text. Also love the warnings when boosting posts w/o alt. 😍
Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.
Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.
The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.
In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.
Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.
Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.
The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?
While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.
I think every day about this thread talking how OpenAI is going to kill the Commons bc exactly this. The only possible defensea are data poisoning or not sharing, which both suck for the Commons.
@DoesntExist@blogdiva@astrojuanlu@KathyReid what about the Share-Alike part? Output of LLMs does not take into account the original license and, iiuc, they go as far as to "give you ownership" of the output as prompt author. Isn't that an obvious breach as well? (assuming the answer is considered a derivative)
@DoesntExist@blogdiva@astrojuanlu@KathyReid that's what I thought, but honestly, lately I can shake away this feeling that I'm training their for-profit climate-killing machines everytime I share something on the internet (regardless of licenses). What used to be a feeling of helping somebody has been replaced with a fear of "how will They™ use this against me"
@CalaeCatCafe I found this fella today outside home, that green thing is all plastic, some sort of fake vegetation but apparently it can also work as a mattress, on the reverse side 🤷
Does anybody on the fedi Laravel community knows Aaron Francis? It's really sad that his (awesome) fast-paginate package seems abandoned like this, maybe just a statement acknowledging he can't/doesn't want to maintain it anymore can make the community fork it to keep it maintained. This L11 support PR has been opened and unanswered for 2 months already.
I wonder why Amazon would push so hard for ppl to end their union membership. It's almost as if they were afraid of workers getting together and organizing...
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