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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts
Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here
Earlier today I edited my (small) set of Stack Overflow posts to add the sentence "I do not consent to my words being used to train OpenAI" to the end. Within hours, all these edits were reversed and I got a warning email for "removing or defacing content". I did not remove any content. If this small sentence is "defacing", it is a very minor defacement. In no way was the experience of other users made worse by me adding one sentence.
To Stack Overflow, you are not a person. You are "content".
Not only does Stack Overflow say you don't have a right to remove your words from Stack Overflow, according to Stack Overflow, you don't even have the right to decide what words Stack Overflow publishes under your name.
In the meantime, I have been suspended for 17 hours to "cool down". OpenAI is so, so offended by me saying I don't want them to train on my content. Clearly I am very angry and need to sit in time out.
Noticed this last detail only when I tried to edit my profile and discovered you can't edit your profile while "suspended".
huh. I thought the LLMs were already trained on StackOverflow.
It's available under some kind of public license, I think. There are a bunch of clone page out there, anyway.
@WomanCorn @mcc All the major LLMs, at least the ones focused on coding tasks, are already trained on a huge amount of StackOverflow discussions. This has nothing to do with their recent deal with OpenAI. SO is CC licensed, good quality text and easily available, so everyone uses it.