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Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED (www.wired.com)

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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.

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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 points 5 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 Most answers you'll find are several years old and outdated, because some idiot thought the new ones are duplicates.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.works 6 points 5 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?

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