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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You could argue that people can be identified by their writing style. I have no idea how far you'd get with that though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Frankly I don’t see any way whatsoever that this would fly, and that’s a good thing!

Imagine what it would mean for software-development if one angry dev could request the deletion of all their contributions at a moments notice by pointing to a right to be forgotten. Documentation is really not meaningfully different from that.