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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 06:22:11 JST Ars Technica

   Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal

   Anti-AI users who change or delete answers in protest are being punished.

   https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/stack-overflow-users-sabotage-their-posts-after-openai-deal/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 06:41:43 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦

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     @arstechnica

     your social output will be fodder for the machine

     submission is compulsory

     uggh

     all these poor stack overflow users joined in when it was the sheer pleasure of exchanging knowledge

     and now they are grist to feed a machine

     what a world

   • ┻┻ ︵ v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾ ︵ ┻┻ (vitriolix@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 08:24:13 JST ┻┻ ︵ v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾ ︵ ┻┻

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     @arstechnica clamping down on objectors is such a Streisand effect move. People willing to take the effort to remove their posts are probably a tiny group, but spiking them only makes their protest more potent

   • Andreas Sturm 💚🌻🚴🏻 🧗‍♂️ 🥋 (andreas_sturm@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 20:28:43 JST Andreas Sturm 💚🌻🚴🏻 🧗‍♂️ 🥋

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     @arstechnica oh 😳 I've blocked #StackOverflow in my router years ago, such a sad story, destroying another "community driven" platform

     #stackoverflowistoxic