Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal

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Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal
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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.

'I hate this. I'm just going to delete/deface my answers one by one,' wrote one user on sister site Stack Exchange. “I don't care if this is against your silly policies, because as this announcement shows, your policies can change at a whim without prior consultation of your stakeholders. You don't care about your users, I don't care about you.

This is especially true considering that until very recently, Stack Overflow seemed to take a negative stance toward generative AI in general, banning answers written using ChatGPT. It was also widely reported last year that ChatGPT's popularity had severely reduced Stack Overflow's traffic, though the company seemed to later refute that, claiming faulty analysis by outsiders.

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