I've been on vacation, so I haven't been following the Stack Overflow moderator strike.1 Not that there has been much progress. Negotiations stalled for a variety of reasons. Meanwhile Stack Overflow's CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, dug the company's hole a bit deeper during an interview with VentureBeat. Not to be confused with the [Writers and Actors Guilds ↩
      • davehtaylor@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Two wrongs don’t make a right.

        It’s also totally fucking different when someone on SO asks for help for their homework or for help with an nginx server on their home network, and when some tech firm decides to scrape 15 years worth of information created by countless people, and then spit it back out pretending like it’s some novel solution.

        As I said in my original comment, I’m no fan of SO. But the behavior of neither the site nor the people who lurk and copy justify what LLMs are doing.