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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I got an email ban.

1609 hours logged 431 solved threads

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If this is true, then we should prepare to be shout at by chatgpt why we didnt knew already that simple error.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

ChatGPT now just says “read the docs!” To every question

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey ChatGPT, how can I ...

"Locking as this is a duplicate of [unrelated question]"

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Chatgpt is going to get trained on thinking those two questions are duplicates and end up giving bullshit outdated answers to every question.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And then links to a similar sounding but ultimately totally unrelated site.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Stack overflow was the pioneer of hallucinations.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Always love those answers, well if you read the 700 page white paper on this one command set in one module then you would understand… do you think I have the time to read 37000 pages of bland ass documentation yearly on top of doing my actual job? Come the fuck on.

I guess some of these guys have so many heads on their crews that they don’t have much work to do anymore but that’s not the case for most

[–] angelsomething@lemmy.one -1 points 2 years ago

Already had that happen with perplexity, like, no mate, I’m asking you.

This message brought to you by chatgpt bot.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 years ago

You joke.

This would have been probably early last year? Had to look up how to do something in fortran (because fortran) and the answer was very much in the voice of that one dude on the Intel forums who has been answering every single question for decades(?) at this point. Which means it also refused to do anything with features newer than 1992 and was worthless.

Tried again while chatting with an old work buddy a few months back and it looks like they updated to acknowledging f99 and f03 exist. So assume that was all stack overflow.

[–] Bell@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Take all you want, it will only take a few hallucinations before no one trusts LLMs to write code or give advice

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

[…]will only take a few hallucinations before no one trusts LLMs to write code or give advice

Because none of us have ever blindly pasted some code we got off google and crossed our fingers ;-)

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's way easier to figure that out than check ChatGPT hallucinations. There's usually someone saying why a response in SO is wrong, either in another response or a comment. You can filter most of the garbage right at that point, without having to put it in your codebase and discover that the hard way. You get none of that information with ChatGPT. The data spat out is not equivalent.

[–] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Split segment of data without pii to staging database, test pasted script, completely rewrite script over the next three hours.

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Instead of solely deleting content, what if authors had instead moved their content/answers to something self-owned? Can SO even claim ownership legally of the content on their site? Seems iffy in my own, ignorant take.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everything you submit to StackOverflow is licensed under either MIT or CC depending on when you submitted it.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Regardless of the license (apart perhaps from public domain) it is legally still your copyright, since you produced the content. Pretty sure in EU they cannot prevent you from deleting your content.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it is legally still your copyright, since you produced the content. Pretty sure in EU they cannot prevent you from deleting your content.

They absolutely can, you gave them an explicit (under most circumstances irrevocable) permission to do so. That’s how contracts work.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unlike in US, and I cannot speak for all of EU, but at least in Finland a contract cannot take away your legal rights.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago

You can when it comes to copyright. That’s EU-law and anything else would be such a horrible idea that no country would ever set up a law saying otherwise.

If you could simply revoke copyright licenses you would completely kill any practicality of selling your copyrighted works and it would fully undermine any purpose it served in the first place.

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

See, this is why we can't have nice things. Money fucks it up, every time. Fuck money, it's a shitty backwards idea. We can do better than this.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 years ago

You can be killed with steel, which has a lot of other implications on what you do in order to avoid getting killed with steel.

Does steel fuck it all up?

Centralization is a shitty backwards idea. But you have to be very conscious of yourself and your instincts to neuter the part that tells you that it's not to understand it.

Distributivism minus Catholicism is just so good. I always return to it when I give up on trying to find future in some other political ideology.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Frankly, the solution here isn’t vandalism, it’s setting up a competing side and copying the content over. The license of stackoverflow makes that explicitly legal. Anything else is just playing around and hoping that a company acts against its own interests, which has rarely ever worked before.

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The license of stackoverflow makes that explicitly legal

How and why is it illegal (I will take down my post about vandlism until I discuss this.)

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago

I’m not saying vandalism is illegal. I’m say that it borders on immoral and that there is a better, more radical (and thus effective) alternative that one might expect to be illegal but in fact isn’t.