Because I deleted (not edited) some of my answers on Stack Overflow (7 in total) during the last two days, my account is now locked because I "defaced" the community.
They seem to be really desperate. But with their decision to sell their data to OpenAI, they sealed their own fate.
@louis Everyone knew what would happen after Stack Exchange was sold to a private equity conglomerate. Founders made their money (good for them!) and are out. At the end of day it is yet another company exploiting users for data. Nothing new and no real future.
@galdor So this is what I got in response from the volunteer Stack Moderators after a quick exchange:
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Moderators are volunteering for the community, not the company. Specifically, people who don't want to use AI and want to have a reputable source of information written by humans.
Regardless of what company does, currently there is no way to prevent AI companies to scrape or use data dumps to train their models anyway.
Content you are destroying has been scraped a long time ago, behind company back. If you don't want your posts to be used for training AI you just don't have to post anything new.
Regards,
Stack Overflow Moderation Team
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Can't quite get it why anyone would still volunteer their time as a moderator to this company, err, "community".
Anyway, I only contributed in 2022 during the course of a few days to see how quickly one can ramp up their reputation score. So there are no real ground for me to engage with them further. It's just yet another sad example of .. you know.
> Can't quite get it why anyone would still volunteer their time as a moderator to this company, err, "community".
It's funny because reading the beginning of your message, this is what I immediately thought. Same thing with Reddit moderators. Companies have been doing a very good job at convincing people that they were providing free services out of the goodness of their heart. Hopefully users will learn from this.
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