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I've received a formal response by the Stack Overflow team, encouraging me to edit my profile to add any anti-AI statement I want. However, the 7-days ban means that I cannot perform this operation for a week. 🤡

They've also added, and I quote:

While we are working to get further clarity and better public messaging, it is our current understanding (based on this official statement from Stack Exchange meta.stackexchange.com/a/39963…) that these agreements with AI companies are a way to work with companies using Stack Exchange data to provide appropriate attribution (as per the CC by-SA license stackoverflow.com/help/licensi…), rather than simply providing answers without attribution, as many do today.

I may have lost my temper and delivered them this response to this paragraph:

And I'm glad you unpaid clowns drank the AI Kool-Aid, it makes easier my decision to put Stack Overflow to the overflowing enshittification bin where it just rightfully earned its place.

The sad truth is that LLM systems cannot provide appropriate attribution by design. These systems are meant to generate plausible looking texts with unreliable accuracy. This includes attribution that will also be plausible-looking once it goes through the data mixer.

Enjoy your joyless reverts and bans while you can, shills.