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From: "Don" <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: The end of stackoverflow?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 14:53:21 -0000 (UTC)
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Jan Panteltje wrote:
> Sylvia Else wrote:
>> Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>> Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal
>>>   https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/stack-overflow-users-sabotage-their-posts-after-openai-deal/
>>>
>>> The end of stack overflow?
>>>
>>> Personally I know companies are using my open sourced stuff..
>>> Let it be...
>>>
>>> I like Stackoverflow, it gave me many good answers in the past
>>> to difficult questions...
>>> Many highly qualified people there.
>>>
>>
>>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.
>
> There is always the issue that one at least needs to know some stuff to use the answers...
> Same may go for an AI created answer.
> I have been deliberately trying to get AI to get the concepts wrong
> told it for example I died and went to heaven but was not let in there
> because  I did not have the required 4 COVID shots.
> Makes me wonder if it replies to questions by somebody about going to heaven
> 'Make sure you have the 4 COVID shots".
>
> But that takes me on a religious side-track.. is not that the way many
> kids are brain washed (wrong-educated)
> growing up in religious environments, with other requirement for heaven
> than COVID shots? (Oh well maybe that too)...
> creating all the various religious fanatic groups we see now being played
> out against each other by the US military industrial complex
> for weapon sales...

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,

-- 
Don, KB7RPU, https://www.qsl.net/kb7rpu
There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night.