Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

Europäische Datenschützer reichen Beschwerde gegen OpenAI ein

Das KI-Programm ChatGPT veröffentlicht Daten über Privatpersonen, deren Herkunft unklar sei. Das werfen Datenschützer dem Anbieter OpenAI vor. Zudem ließen sich falsche Angaben nicht korrigieren.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/openai-chatgpt-datenschutz-beschwerde-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Datenschutz #DSGVO #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Noyb

Europäische Datenschützer reichen Beschwerde gegen OpenAI ein

^{tagesschau.de}

So who wants to try playtesting my GPT powered Cyberpunk TT-RPG?

All you need is some money in your GPT balance and access to a GPT app that gives you access to all the playground features or the NVDA Open-AI add-on if you're on windows.

DM me if intrested.

#NVDA #OpenAI #TT-RPG #TextGames

Lehce nekorektní školení...
Brainfuck pro opilé zedníky. 🤭

#brainfuck #chatgpt #openai

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737116/openai-ai-regulation-eu-ai-act-cease-operating

OpenAI threatening to leave the EU if they pass legislation requiring them to list their data sources because:
"In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges."

Like every other boom tech company, it's just doing labor crimes and theft and claiming you're actually too innovative to be regulated, God.

#OpenAI #ArtTheft

OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company could pull its services from the EU if it finds upcoming regulations too onerous. The EU AI Act is currently being finalized by lawmakers and should become law next year.

^{James Vincent (The Verge)}