Linked Questions
31 questions linked to/from Our Partnership with OpenAI
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Thank you, Shog9
@Shog9, a longtime Community Manager here at Stack Exchange, has just tweeted that he is no longer working at Stack Overflow: @shog9: Well... I suddenly find myself in need of work. If anyone's ...
803 votes
21 answers
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Moderation strike: Results of negotiations
We have reached the following conclusions during negotiations between community-selected strike representatives and representatives of Stack Exchange, Inc. This aims to address most of the concerns ...
51 votes
28 answers
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What’s on your mind?
You. Yes, you: What’s on your mind? When you think about the future of the network - years from now - what worries you? What makes you anxious? What do you look forward to? What might make you hopeful?...
770 votes
3 answers
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Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?
I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer&...
65 votes
11 answers
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The company's commitment to the data dumps, the API, and SEDE
Many words have been written around the company's commitment to the ongoing existence of the data dumps, the API, and the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE). Much of that text can be confusing or ...
132 votes
7 answers
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Is SE [going to be] selling our content for AI model training? And what exactly does "reinvest back into our communities" mean?
Wired published an article titled Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data. I read through it, and a few sections seemed noteworthy to me "Community platforms that fuel LLMs ...
15 votes
7 answers
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network (July 2024)
Today I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog. TL;DR - top areas of focus include: Community Asks quarterly event Iterating and scaling Staging ...
160 votes
5 answers
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Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta
TL;DR: Please do not hide Meta Stack Exchange posts on the homepage based on the score because this site works differently than the other ~180 sites listed in https://stackexchange.com/sites. I just ...
99 votes
4 answers
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All Stack Exchange data dump releases
I know how to download the latest release of the Stack Exchange Creative Commons Data Dump, but I'm interested in downloading a past release and don't see those listed. Where can I find them?
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14 answers
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Preventing unauthorized automated access to the network
Update December 10th, 2024 Our rate-limit on high-volume scripted requests to the network (described in bullet point 4 below) is now live. We expect that this will be the final update on this post. In ...
37 votes
10 answers
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Why are people so unhappy about the OpenAI partnership? Am I missing something?
I'm reading the answers at Our Partnership with OpenAI, and a lot of people seem very unhappy about the partnership. I feel violated, cheated upon, betrayed, and exploited. And so on. But... why? ...
32 votes
4 answers
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What deliverables would you like to see out of a working group?
Update June 3rd, 2024 Thank you to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts. We will review your suggestions and share an update once we have decided on what action to take with working ...
42 votes
7 answers
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How can a user unhappy with the LLM partnerships protest constructively (and ideally- effectively)?
I'm more asking this on behalf* of the many people I see trying to express protest to the OpenAI partnership in ways that get themselves into trouble: Deleting their own posts- individual or en masse ...
63 votes
5 answers
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(Interim) Policy on AI-content detection reports
This post is (finally) to announce that I have formally rescinded the policy on Generative AI (specifically the one regarding GPT content detectors, which was announced on the moderators team and ...
-77 votes
18 answers
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The Internet is changing: Here's how we're evolving with it
Today, we published a series of posts on the Stack Overflow blog that discuss recent industry changes and Stack’s future positioning. The series is a collection of thought leadership pieces by the ...