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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I'd be shocked if deleted comments weren't retained by them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Isn't that illegal in most countries?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

In Europe GDPR gives you the right to have all your data deleted. All you do is send in a request and SO has to remove everything of yours, not just anonymize it. There are some exceptions for legal reasons, eg where financial transactions are involved, but comments should not be exempt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It is still just a "trust us" deal. They say they have deleted it, and all you can do is trust them. They could possibly get into legal troubles if it was shown they were lying, but that could be easily avoided as well.

GDPR is ok, but much of it is based on good actors doing what they should.

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