This Stack Overflow/OpenAI news is an absolute disaster and a dark day in the history of online communities.
It's hard to read this as anything other than Stack Overflow being desperate for cash. Reports are already surfacing about how badly they handled it, and I expect that will only worsen.
Poor member and moderator communications, answers from dead members being automatically included in the agreement, no opt-in for a share of revenue generated through the agreement, no way to opt-out, penalizing members who try to remove their answers through the tools provided by the site, and a real lack of info in general.
I know there are good community folks working at SO. I feel for them and what they are being subjected to by their leadership engaging in this grisly business.
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