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Cute how people believe deleting answers helps. Answers are still probably stored on SO’s servers and can be used for training.
Exactly the same crap as a year ago with Reddit. Just like back then users need to go somewhere else and learn from the experience.
They have public revisions of every answer and consider deleting good content “vandalism” since it violates license, so it’s no surprise that they’d keep it all
This meme would be absolutely killer if the bottom text was "this question has been closed as a duplicate."
StackOverflow will discourage you when you're right. ChatGPT will encourage you when you're wrong.
Hey gpt, how do I split a list object in C#?
"Question marked as duplicate: ''How do I create a variable in Python'"
What? That doesn't help at all.
"You seem to be confused. You asked how to split a list in C#, and I provided information on how to create a variable in Python"
#1 finds ways to not give you a solution despite having one. #2 finds ways to give you a solution despite not having any.
Will the AI trained on it be hostile towards your question, if:
- you ask help in an unpopular language,
- there's already a janky and bloated middleware that does the same thing poorly?
A while back the PHP community invested massively in tracking down anti-pattern advice (like using magic_quotes) in a coordinated effort to stop misinforming new developers... I look forward to our new GPT overlords who get misinformation baked into them that we can never get out.
Pop quiz - who did the majority of Twitter respondants say won the 2020 election? I don't know the answer and considering that's a large portion of GPT's training data that's fucking scary.
The enshittification has begun