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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The end of stackoverflow?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 08:52:34 GMT
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On a sunny day (Fri, 10 May 2024 15:16:21 +0800) it happened Sylvia Else
<sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in <la5vu5FojftU1@mid.individual.net>:

>On 10-May-24 2:55 pm, 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...

:-) drifting of the topic :-)
I have never _contributed_ to Stack Overflow, google will find Usenet with lots of specific answers, one can ask here.
Some groups are still alive.
I hope it stays that way.