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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 03:14:55 UTC mcc

   Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

   https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

   Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

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   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 03:14:56 UTC mcc

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     In the meantime, I have been suspended for 17 hours to "cool down". OpenAI is so, so offended by me saying I don't want them to train on their content. Clearly I am very angry and need to sit in time out.

     Noticed this last detail only when I tried to edit my profile and discovered you can't edit your profile while "suspended".

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   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 03:14:57 UTC mcc

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     Earlier today I edited my (small) set of Stack Overflow posts to add the sentence "I do not consent to my words being used to train OpenAI" to the end. Within hours, all these edits were reversed and I got a warning email for "removing or defacing content". I did not remove any content. If this small sentence is "defacing", it is a very minor defacement. In no way was the experience of other users made worse by me adding one sentence.

     To Stack Overflow, you are not a person. You are "content".

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 03:14:57 UTC mcc

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     Not only does Stack Overflow say you don't have a right to remove your words from Stack Overflow, according to Stack Overflow, you don't even have the right to decide what words Stack Overflow publishes under your name.