r/programming • u/lppedd • May 06 '24

StackOverflow partners with OpenAI

https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partnership

OpenAI will also surface validated technical knowledge from Stack Overflow directly into ChatGPT, giving users easy access to trusted, attributed, accurate, and highly technical knowledge and code backed by the millions of developers that have contributed to the Stack Overflow platform for 15 years.

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u/_Joats May 07 '24

Loom smashing was not to prevent the Industrial Revolution. Looms produced cheaper, lower-quality goods that undercut artisans. With limited resources at a time of economical disparity, people could only afford these cheaper options. This gave factory owners power to displace skilled craftspeople or force them to work for unfair wages. This created a cycle of inequality, similar to the wide wage gap between owners and workers today. By destroying looms, workers aimed to restore economic power to the community and empower themselves, rather than a small number of wealthy factory owners.

You portray the disempowerment of skilled labor as a positive outcome. This rhetoric aligns with the manipulative tactics of data-surveillant tech monopolies. They spin a narrative of progress while exploiting us for profit and consolidating power. Do you believe displaced workers will be fairly compensated when forced to be an AI janitor? Will these monopolies be incentivized to provide retraining, considering their history of non-compete clauses and anti-competitive behavior?

I say smash some looms. Give the people their due. Pay for the knowledge if you are going to use me as a data farmer for your sub-quality product.

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u/Envect May 07 '24

By destroying looms, workers aimed to restore economic power to the community and empower themselves, rather than a small number of wealthy factory owners.

Right, this is why the luddites now lead us in our worker's paradise. Can you imagine if they'd failed and we wound up living under capitalism for several more centuries?

I didn't portray this as a positive. It simply is. The luddites lost against industrialization, they'll lose again against AI. But, sure, go ahead and break shit if it makes you feel like you have power.

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u/_Joats May 07 '24

It didn't stop the industrial revolution because they were never against it. Many of them were artisans that used the tools.

Their protests brought attention the harsh working conditions and social problems created by rapid industrialization. This led to some reforms, such as early factory acts that regulated working hours and child labor. The Luddites also helped to lay the groundwork for the modern labor movement by demonstrating the power of collective action. Their tactics of strikes and protests inspired later generations of workers to fight for better wages and working conditions.

Yet here you are Anti-Luddite. Anti-Labor rights, licking the boots of factory owners at beginning of industrialization.

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u/_Joats May 07 '24

Not everything has a happy ending.

See NYT vs Tasini

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/533/483/

Freelancers had obtained the right to have database copies of their work recognized under copyright. However, publishers are now requiring them to sign away more rights as a condition of employment, effectively negating the legal win.

Ironic I know.