Stack Overflow moderators go on strike after being instructed not to remove AI-generated content Options

[Christian J]

https://devclass.com/2023/06/05/stack-overf...erated-content/

A number of Stack Overflow moderators have declared a “general moderation strike” to protest about being instructed not to remove AI-generated content “outside of exceedingly narrow circumstances.”
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“Moderators are no longer allowed to remove AI-generated answers on the basis of being AI-generated, outside of exceedingly narrow circumstances. This results in effectively permitting nearly all AI-generated answers to be freely posted, regardless of established community consensus on such content,” the striking mods said in an open letter.

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The background is that StackOverflow appears to be struggling to make sense of the impact of AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT on its question and answer site. Traffic has fallen. The company’s initial reaction was to ban use of ChatGPT to post Stack Overflow answers via a “temporary policy”, to the approval of the community
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“Stack Overflow ran an analysis and the ChatGPT detection tools that moderators were previously using have an alarmingly high rate of false positives. Usage of these tools correlated to a dramatic upswing in suspensions of users ...

Maybe a sign of what's to come once the AI bots are let loose on the web in earnest?