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Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal
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Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

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This title doesn't mention it, but it was reported earlier that users editing their past posts against this move get banned for it.

Need to make sure the diff is small enough. A tiny change that creates a bug or makes the answer effectively useless is much worse than sweeping changes

But that leaves a lot of good code. The bad parts are very unlikely to appear in the AI results due to the amount of good code in the training set.

I got banned as expected. For a month. After I'm unbanned, I'll edit a few characters every day. Not giving up. As unlawful it sounds, apparently you are not entitled to ask them to remove all your data.