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  • Stack Overflow volunteer moderators strike over AI-generated post polic

    From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 7 09:50:29 2023
    I'm a month late to find out about this, but maybe still worth
    posting here for those like me who only visit these sites when web
    searches happen to point them there. The Stack Overflow family of
    websites have banned moderators from deleting AI-generated posts,
    and in response many mods have gone on strike.

    https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389811

    Actually it's also partly about the pausing of "data dumps" of
    contributed content on the websites (since resumed), apparantly
    prompted by AI providers harvesting it to improve their chat bots,
    which is also said to be what prompted Reddit to start charging for
    API access, causing a similar reaction over there.

    Interestingly, the graphs on this page show that Stack Overflow
    has been in decline for some years now. Clearly those users haven't
    been switching back to Usenet though.

    https://jlericson.com/2023/06/26/problem_ai.html

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Fri Jul 7 10:42:48 2023
    Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
    I'm a month late to find out about this, but maybe still worth
    posting here for those like me who only visit these sites when web
    searches happen to point them there. The Stack Overflow family of
    websites have banned moderators from deleting AI-generated posts,
    and in response many mods have gone on strike.

    https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389811

    Actually it's also partly about the pausing of "data dumps" of
    contributed content on the websites (since resumed), apparantly
    prompted by AI providers harvesting it to improve their chat bots,
    which is also said to be what prompted Reddit to start charging for
    API access, causing a similar reaction over there.

    It's also that SE mods say they can spot and ban ChatGPT posts, while management say there aren't that many according to their metrics. The mods
    say they are better at spotting them than the tools are catching, while management say that the SE mods are being overly keen at banning.
    And then the usual complaints about poor communications of policy and
    decision making processes.

    (I have no idea really, but have experienced SE mods being trigger happy
    about closing questions as 'off topic' just because the mod wasn't familiar with the subject)

    Theo

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 7 11:31:36 2023
    Am 07.07.2023 schrieb not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev):

    The Stack Overflow family of
    websites have banned moderators from deleting AI-generated posts,
    and in response many mods have gone on strike.

    Very often KI bot posts contain much bullshit because they harvest wrong information or interpret it a wrong way.

    Not deleting that will make an entire platform a shithole.

    Denying moderator to delete that is a very, very bad decision.

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