How does removing their code help anyone? It barely makes the tineist bit of difference to Open AI, if any that's detectable. They aren't the only one's helping with that kind of code. "But it's the principle of the thing." Ok, well if it makes you feel good but that kind of self-centeredness belies your stated desire to help people.

edit: I think what bothers me is it seems like a Luddite reaction of someone who resents progress they don't approve of and want no part of it

> How does removing their code help anyone?

The same way protesting anything helps anyone. It draws attention to a problem and, if the protest is visible enough, leads to positive change.

I want to say that there’s a missing component that a lot of people miss when it comes to protest. Visibility means nothing if target doesn’t care. The goal of protest isn’t visibility , it’s to convince a target into doing what you want, where visibility is used as a tool to embarrass the target into submission. If the target has no shame, then you can protest all you want, they won’t care.

In the 1960s If the US wasn’t in a cold war and didn’t care that they were perceived as racists , The Civil Rights Movement would probably have to moved towards the Malcom X direction than Kings.

>Visibility means nothing if target doesn’t care.

Sounds like it's just that the deal has changed, so they don't like the new deal and have decided to opt out.

If it's a public good, then it's a public good. So whoever wants to use it according to the license it's fine.

If something is produced where the author is upset afterwards when this good is not used in the way he/she intended to, than it's the problem of the author in the first place to have choosen the wrong license.

OpenAI is not the only one producing models from SO data. There are open models doing so as well