Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

  • Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Okay but why? It’s not like it’s personal Data or something. I don’t get why people are mad ._.

    EDIT: Ofcourse you can downvote me but I’d really like an answer, tho. The article is not very clear about this.

    • InternetPerson@lemmings.world
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      6 months ago

      Because it’s original work they contributed for free. Lending others that kind of expertise and time, just that it get’s used by a machine learning algorithm, which aims to reproduce this, without giving it back to them or the community in a similar free manner, feels violating.
      Apart from that, creators feel ownership over their content and it feels wrong not to be asked what happens to it. (Although those probably wouldn’t – or shouldn’t – use SO anyway, as their content gets commercialised anyway by giving it SO for free.)

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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      6 months ago

      It gives worse answers and hallucinates a lot, problems specific to the model’s design and not how much training data it gets. Even if it did work, it would be taking jobs away from actual programmers. It’s a total net negative, users have nothing to benefit from this. Plus, since this is a community of programmers, they’re all very much aware of these limitations and the lack of ethics of OpenAI.