Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI

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Give us an opt-out button or give us (temporary) account death!

Stack Overflow users are revolting against the Q&A site's partnership with OpenAI, announcing they'd rather remove their posts and sacrifice their reputation scores than have their submissions used to train ChatGPT.earlier this week that OpenAI would soon be able to train AI models using the answers and knowledge Stack Overflow users have contributed in the past 15 years.

Other users say they've had similar experiences, and that Stack Overflow has been banning users wholesale who have attempted to delete or deface their own posts on the site. We've asked Stack Overflow to clarify the extent of the protests, and haven't heard back yet. "Once you post a question or answer to this site, those posts become part of the collective efforts of others who have contributed to that content," Team Overflow said in the email."Because of the amount of disruption these incidents can cause, we have placed your account on hold for seven days."

"You grant Stack Overflow the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, export, display and to commercially exploit such Subscriber Content, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by you," the terms continue.

 

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