Summary: Stack Overflow Moderators Are Striking to Stop Garbage AI Content From Flooding the Site

Effective immediately, we are enacting a general moderation strike on Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, in protest of this and other recent and upcoming changes to policy and the platform that are being forced upon us by Stack Overflow, Inc.”

The new policy, enacted in late May, requires moderators to stop moderating AI-generated content simply for being AI-generated.

It does not understand what it’s saying.”

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This, it continues, allows users to regurgitate ChatGPT’s answers without understanding them themselves, which goes against the very purpose of the site: “To be a repository of high-quality question and answer content.”

The content of the new AI policy is one big problem.

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“Stack Overflow, Inc. has decreed a near-total prohibition on moderating AI-generated content… tacitly allowing the proliferation of incorrect information (“hallucinations”) and unfettered plagiarism on the Stack Exchange network,” reads an open letter written by the moderators, who are all volunteers elected by the community.

It continues, “The fact that you have made one point in private, and one in public, which differ so significantly has put the moderators in an impossible situation, and made them targets for being accused of being unreasonable, and exaggerating the effect of the new policy.”

Moderators are also demanding non-AI-related improvements to the site.

However, on May 29, the moderators write that a new policy was implemented in private, requiring “an immediate cessation of issuing suspensions for AI-generated content and to stop moderating AI-generated content on that basis alone.” The following day, a slightly different version of the policy was released to the public, without the language requiring moderators to stop restricting all AI content.

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Stack Overflow Moderators Are Striking to Stop Garbage AI Content From Flooding the Site

Volunteer moderators of the forum are striking over a policy that says AI-generated content can practically not be moderated.

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