

They do exist, and that can’t be undone, but those depicted in them have not consented to be used in training data. I get the ends, I just don’t think that makes the means ethically okay. And maybe the ends aren’t either, to be fair, without awaiting research on the subject, however one might do that.

I do wonder then, as new languages and tools are developed, how quickly will AI models be able to parrot information on their use, if sources like stackoverflow cease to exist.