Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT
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Why delete the answer, why not edit it so that a human can see the answer but for AI its a load of nonsense?

There's no way that would work either, they can just store the full edit history and auto-curate as needed.

Editing any content to reduce its quality is considered vandalism and gets reverted on SO.

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