Good. I had a couple of answers to one of my questions that just wasted my time before I realised they were AI. The authors didn’t get banned annoyingly.

Anyone who’s unclear on how the whole “AI transformation” is going: a major Geek House just banned it because it sucks so bad.

Big Tech Corporations: your naked attempts to lock out workers from IT profits by laying them off in the hope that AI will replace them is starting to fail catastrophically. Here’s to the dim hope you get bounced to the curb by a vengeful board.

It’s sad but i stopped writing answers or comments on SO years ago. I used to have all these optimistic ideas about people working together to collectively grow our shared knowledge. I guess Wikipedia and the Internet Archive keep barely hanging in there, but if anything those cases prove my point: without one extremely strong personality to hold the corruption in check, all these collaborative “digital commons” projects are a leadership change away from completely selling out all the work put into them. That can be feeding everything into AI but it’s also monetization schemes and EULA changes to claim ownership of user submitted content and locking the public out of your site without accounts and subscriptions.

And usually the public’s only recourse is to tear it all down and start again, waiting for the next con artist to come along and steal the village’s prosperity.

Fuck Stack Overflow. They’ve created a culture more interested in finding reasons to close questions than anything else.

But didn’t they say they were going to use all questions and answers to train ai?