Recap
The place are we now?
Final week, I ended with a observe that the information dumps needs to be restored by June 16. Excellent news. That has been accomplished and the dump was uploaded by June 16. It is
progress, however after two weeks now we have solely achieved one out of 4 duties on the checklist of situations to finish the strike.
- A retraction of the of the prohibition of moderating GPT content material.
- The non-public coverage on GPT content material that was issued to moderators have to be revealed publicly.
- The info dumps have to be re-enabled and SEDE and API entry guarenteed.
- Stack Alternate, Inc. should talk, collect suggestions, and act on that suggestions earlier than making main coverage or software program modifications to the general public platform.
I’ve heard rumors that the second bullet might happen, however nothing has been performed publicly. Thus, nothing exterior of suggestions from representatives to go on right here.
GPT Content material
On Thursday, June 15, Stack Alternate enabled their “formatting assistant”. To say it went poorly, is an understatement. There are at present 52 solutions to that
query exhibiting the way it would not work. It is a skinny wrapper round a model of ChatGPT or GPT4. It is also very, very dangerous at being a “formatting assistant”. As an alternative,
it is rewriting content material, butchering code being requested about, making stuff up, answering questions and every part apart from making formatting
higher. One person, Mithical, discovered the immediate the formatting assistant is utilizing.
The one small postive that got here out of that is that Stack Alternate did talk with the group a number of days earlier than this was launched. This is not sufficient
although.
Communication
Why is not one publish sufficient?
Behind the scenes it is change into clearer to me that a number of employees members of Stack Alternate do not want to interact with the group. I briefly touched on one in every of these
folks in my [last update][strikeweek1update]. The general public press has been out of the loop sounding, the interior reactions on moderation channels has been
complaints that moderators are to unfavorable.
After all moderators are unfavorable proper now. There’s a strike occurring as a result of they’re sad. The suggestions from representatives continues to be crammed with
highway blocks.
The place do I sit right now?
I believe it is turning into extra clear that Stack Alternate just isn’t concerned about eradicating GenerativeAI content material from it is web site. It is actively constructing and selling a device
that makes use of ChatGPT beneath the hood. I’m very shocked that they pulled the plug on the formatting assistant after two days. Earlier unfavorable suggestions has been
ignored and I totally anticipated this one to be as properly. The issue with pulling the plug on this, is that CEO has dedicated to thrilling bulletins about AI this
summer season. If the group simply confirmed that a type of AI initiatives was a flop, they will go even tougher at getting the subsequent one to succeed.
As this drags on into it is third week, I’ve change into extra pesimistic that this strike would not finish with resignations. Reddit had a two day strike throughout this
time interval, and they’re already threatening to exchange group moderators. The Stack Alternate CEO has expressed their fondness for Reddit on occassion,
so I think that the motion being taken over there may be being thought-about right here. After all, the distinction right here is that Stack Alternate wasn’t successfully shut down
by the strike like Reddit was. Websites did not go darkish. As an alternative, curators and moderators stopped curating and moderating. Every thing continues to be obtainable,
the websites are nonetheless working, it is simply much less tidy than traditional.
