As a regular contributor to this blog, YouTube and various forums I was surprised to learn that Stack Overflow decided to partner with OpenAI and thus is “transferring” contribution to their use.
You can view the company’s announcement at:
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models - Press release - Stack Overflow
Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.
API Partnership with Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow and OpenAI today announced a new API partnership that will empower developers with the collective strengths of the world’s leading knowledge platform for highly technical content with the world’s most popular LLM models for AI development.
Many are opposed to this form of use of their contributions.
Sadly, SO has started suspending users who dare to opposite this decision.
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT
Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.
Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal
Anti-AI users who change or delete answers in protest are being punished.
Stack Overflow suspends users protesting OpenAI deal
Give us an opt-out button or give us (temporary) account death!
Stack Overflow suspends user for editing posts in OpenAI protest
A recent partnership announcement between OpenAI and Stack Overflow has some members concerned that their data is being used without permission and, when trying to remove their posts, find their accounts are suspended.
Stack Overflow Bans Users for Protesting Against It Selling Their Answers to OpenAI as Training Data
Users are protesting the OpenAI partnership by attempting to edit or delete their own posts, only to get banned by Stack Overflow.
It’s a very sad day when any entity, Stack OverFlow in this instance, decides to force people to do as they wish. What a way to treat their users. As they say, if you can’t take the heat, you shouldn’t be in the kitchen!
A battle is brewing!