ben 🇵🇸 ui
Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.
Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.
So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.
Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.
ben 🇵🇸 ui
It's just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you.
ben 🇵🇸 ui
I'm requesting that my questions and answers be permanently deleted under GDPR.
Arne Babenhauserheide
@martin_piper it wasn’t given away. It was licensed under a sharealike license.
But „AI“ is used to launder copyright so they can proprietarize what I only gave as free culture.
@ben
Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉
@ben you gave them information for free. You don't own it, they do. That was the working relationship.
Imagine if you were working for a company producing work and you suddenly tried to sabotage that work. That's what you were trying to do, sabotage it. They would be perfectly within their rights to restrict your access.
The moral of this story is, if you want to retain ownership then don't give it away (for free) to someone else.
Aral Balkan
@ben They’re not yours, they’re theirs. Jeff Atwood thanks you for your free labour. (I’m kidding, he doesn’t. Feel grateful he even allowed you to contribute in the first place, serf.)
Speaking of Jeff Atwood, isn’t he the guy helping fund Mastodon now? 🤔
#SiliconValley #PeopleFarming #JeffAtwood #surveillance #capitalism #AllYourDataAreBelongToUs
Aral Balkan
@vitor @ben Did he? (I can’t say I follow the every move of every Silicon Valley tech bro.)
Vítor
@aral @ben Jeff left Stack Exchange over a decade ago. What’s the sense in criticising him for this?
Aral Balkan
nus
@hunterhacker @ben with ChatGPT the answer gets turned into atoms and reconstructed, often with errors. It's not showing anyone's answer, it's showing a slop that approximates what it thinks looks most correct.
You have no one to thank, no one to correct, and ChatGPT couldn't start to tell you where the answer came from even if it was 99% from one person.
Jason Hunter
@ben Why do people care if someone like me gets your excellent answer to a coding question by typing my error message into Google (forwarding to SO) or into ChatGPT?
In neither situation were you getting paid. In both situations the middle man makes a buck. In both situations I’m thankful you spent time helping me.
Is it that with ChatGPT I don’t know who to thank?
matty matty matty
@hunterhacker @ben it's that chatgpt is fundamentally built off copyright infringement and theft. even if in this situation there's no profit being taken, in other situations there absolutely is. openai is fundamentally scummy, and it's good to push back if you can.
Mighty Orbot
@ben Stack Overflow has already been monetizing your answers with ads for years. If “used for profit” is your main complaint, you’re a little late.
Sick Sun
Lorenzo Stoakes
Petr Tesarik
@ljs @ben @pavel @vbabka LLMs often turn one type of work (create) into another type of work (review), consuming lots of energy in the process. For some people, it may be worth it (although if they had to pay the full costs of LLMs, humans might still be cheaper).
Pavel Machek
Lorenzo Stoakes
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Vlastimil Babka
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Sick Sun
Petr Tesarik
@sun @ben @ljs @pavel @vbabka I have a feeling that it's no coincidence this poster's Mastodon instance is called “shitposter.world”…
(This is meant to be funny, not an ad hominem argument.)
Cara
@ben@m.benui.ca sounds fair? you volunteered information to the public and gave them the right to host it, don't see why they couldn't keep it as it was?
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