Re: The end of stackoverflow?

May 10, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 7 Replies


Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal


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> The end of stack overflow?
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> Personally I know companies are using my open sourced stuff..
> Let it be...
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> I like Stackoverflow, it gave me many good answers in the past
> to difficult questions...
> Many highly qualified people there.
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One often has to trawl through a number of suggested solutions, either because most of them are wrong (or at least wildly apocryphal), irrelevant, or because the same or similar symptoms can have many different underlying causes.


I have to wonder whether a language model is really up to the task of filtering out the dross, while keeping the important parts.


Sylvia.


In my experience, an AI answer's advantageousness is directly proportional to the applied technology content of the question. In other words, questions about applications amass applicable answers while the results of questions regarding abstractions are all the place, with a Wikipedia bias.

It's feasible for the fine print of social sites similar to Stackoverflow to stipulate all rights to user content belong to the website owner. The quid pro quo is the owner's out-of-pocket expenses to host the site.

Everything comes at a price. And this perfectly illustrates why people absolutely must host their own websites in order to protect their rights.

Danke,

And Jan Panteltje wouldn't notice. His enthusiasm for the the Le Sage theory of gravity is an example of his latching onto dross.

Both 'bots and litigation are separate topics.

My comments pertain to rights retention. After you sign away your rights, nothing's left to litigate.

If it helps, think of it this way: a website's owner is legally entitled to rip you off when you sign away your rights.

Danke,

"What we've got here is failure to communicate."

Your questions and arguments again fall outside of the scope of my followup. My comments pertain to rights retention.

Danke,

The most annoying is that 4 of 5 question that I want to ask there are destroyed by the moderators. It is largely arbitrary. Explain the difference between c and lisp macro's? IMHO dubious. Huge upvotes, apparently acceptable. Explain the difference between Forth and lisp macro's? A more sensible question because they are more related. Shot down, inappropiate for SO. My sensible m4 question (how to write a function that removes the first character of a string) was voted down.

The idea that they should be voted down. A sensible attitude towards chatgpt, is to add the answer of chatgpt immediately, and ask the poster of the question to rate it down.

I think yes, in the long run.

Watch the "Joan is Awful" episode of Black Mirror to see this in action.

I have found that any of my contributions to a question are either removed or edited. I thought it was just me but it looks like it isn't just me.

This may be for stack-exchange or in addition to.

Are they owned by the same people ? The article called them "sisters"

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