Timeline for I'm going on a general moderation strike due to the new AI-content policy forced upon us by SE
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| Aug 10, 2023 at 3:01 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 8, 2023 at 1:00 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 8, 2023 at 12:05 | comment | added | Rinzwind | That I can agree on @Levente :) | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 11:57 | comment | added | Levente | @Rinzwind I suggested that Canonical should help organizing of AU's migration away from SE infrastructure and influence. As, indeed, AU is Canonical's official, and beautifully effective, support site. It deserves something way better than the SE staff is capable of and willing to provide. The SE staff is hostile to the entire userbase since years. They have nothing apart from capitalistic motivations. All they want to see is money. Not even the money that has something to do with their platform; they just want a money. They are unworthy. | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 6:54 | comment | added | cocomac | @Rinzwind I fully agree with you that users want correct information. Also, I agree that mods need to be cautious when issuing suspensions and should Assume Good Intent unless evidence of bad intent is discovered. If all users prefixed GenAI answers that they posted with "This answer was partially/entirely generated using GenAI", then this would be less of an issue. What is an issue, however, is when users don't cite it and pretend they wrote it, and then go and post 10+ answers per hour that are ChatGPT generated to attempt to gain rep, and then mods are forbidden from suspending them | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 6:48 | comment | added | Rinzwind | @cocomac they want CORRECT info. Where is it from does not matter as long as there is citation. Mods have enough rules to enforce it and do not need to mass-ban users. Banning one person on the wrong reasons if far worse than not banning one bad person. And yes I am a European :=) | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 6:45 | comment | added | cocomac | @Rinzwind With the caveat that I'm not a Canonical employee, if I made an OS, I'd far rather my hypothetical support site have correct information about my hypothetical OS over AI-generated "information" that has significant potential to look convincing but mislead users as it is wrong. See also the FAQ in the strike letter | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 6:41 | comment | added | Rinzwind | @RandomPerson oh but AU is their --official-- support site. You really believe they will like this? | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 5:35 | comment | added | Random Person | @Rinzwind I don't think we should care about what Canonical thinks about us. They're not our boss. It's irrelevant IMO. | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 1:37 | comment | added | 0Valt | @Rinzwind active curators (I am from en.SO, just in case) and moderators across the network haven't gone to strike because of the change in the AI policy by itself. It was just a tipping point (how the change was handled in particular, not what it implies) over years of mistreatment of volunteer effort accompanied by executive decisions overruling community consensus. Please, let's avoid telling users what they should and shouldn't do when they think the company continuously disregards efforts provided to it for free. | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 13:01 | comment | added | Rinzwind | I disagree. Answers need to be checked on facts and being correct not on where it came from. And that includes AI answers: if they are wrong you downvote and those answers will disappear. Going on strike is not the answer. If you disagree with policy you resign. @BeastOfCaerbannog it never does. As always it is the users that get shafted: askubuntu is currently spammed to death: 1st 5 of the FP are spam. Canonical is not going to be happy about this. | |
| Jun 5, 2023 at 9:12 | history | edited | ZannaMod |
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| Jun 5, 2023 at 7:52 | comment | added | BeastOfCaerbannog | This is an excellent sum up of the events that led to the strike! Thanks for this post! I hope that the strike will yield positive results for the communities! | |
| Jun 5, 2023 at 7:07 | comment | added | andrew.46 Mod | Thanks cocomac; difficult times at the moment but it is great to see people who really care for the well being of the entire Sack Exchange network pulling together! | |
| Jun 5, 2023 at 6:25 | history | edited | cocomac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2023 at 6:04 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jun 5, 2023 at 5:56 | history | asked | cocomac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |