We talk a lot about the Reddit thing, but can we also talk about the moderation strike at Stack Exchange?
3 years ago by albigu to c/technology
I feel this one is even more impactful for those of us who work in technology, as well as all other areas that have a lot of resources in SE like linguistics and physics. It seems like most people are not aware that it is going on and how important their demands are. Imagine working in software without Stack Overflow, or having it overrun by chatGPT "wrong but convincing" answers.
This LLM thing has been the straw that broke the camel's back on a lot of professions, from Holywood writers to software developers. Things have only been getting worse for a while to a lot of these professions but the sheer hyped trust that corporations have put on this useless technology is actually making the jobs of many people who work with human text much harder. Since we're not indexed by google I think I can even comment here that I managed to even make chatGPT generate scam emails that easily went through the gold standard gmail spam filters (the targets consented beforehand).
A strike I admire since it is in opposition to AI generated content. One of the mods makes a good point when they point out Stack Exchange is a site which is designed around real, substantive, quality answers from real professionals in their fields answering questions with the upmost truth. They go on to explain that AI functions as a parrot (not unlike radlibs who follow the CIAs every word) uncritically forwarding information regardless of it's accuracy or even logical sense, which contradicts the site's current purpose in the information space. They go on to say this would reduce the value of the site to 0. I believe it would simply transform the site into Facebook without families. (All bullshit, no IRL social connection)
Regardless, solidarity with the striking workers.
i had no idea about this even though i use the site pretty regularly. big tech is killing itself.
big tech is killing itself.
Capitalism is killing itself, as predicted and expected.
Power to the people, everywhere
Exactly. Big difference. Ask Molotov, he had a front row view
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Thanks for sharing this. I'm a software engineer and I had no idea this was happening. This industry is wild right now. How long until this house of cards falls?
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