Questions tagged [attribution]
The aspect of attribution in the context of the license used by Stack Exchange, CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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What will be the actual impact of SE's "socially responsible AI" policy?
When the company announced the partnerships with Google and OpenAI they made a big deal out of their commitment to "socially responsible AI" (see this blog post for details). A big part of ...
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I want to use content from a Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange question and answer. How do I comply with the Attribution requirements?
One of the requirements of the CC BY-SA license used for content on the Network is Attribution. What does proper attribution look like for questions and answers found on the Network?
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Enhancement Request: Attribution Block Markdown
Over at Worldbuilding we constantly bring images and quotes in from outside sources. I suspect other Stacks do that a lot, too. When it comes to images, charts, and graphs, we want people to properly ...
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How is removing the user's name from their post compatible with copyright? [duplicate]
So it was explained to me that if a user is removed, regardless of the Stack Exchange site, the name will also be removed from all of their posts. It is completely unimportant at this point why the ...
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Who is the original artist of the comic on the blog post "Do large language models know what they are talking about?"
The blog post Do large language models know what they are talking about? has the comic:
A: It is time to learn about magic circles.
B: ugh, why is it so complex? ... What does this symbol in the ...
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How do we make sure that contributors get the credit and attribution they deserve when their work is used for training AI models?
I have read the blog post about Community is the future of AI and I could not find any serious answer to this question.
Here is the way I see it: The knowledge in Stack Exchange (and Stack Overflow in ...
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How far do we need to go with unattributed images? [duplicate]
The CC licensing requires attribution for any content that isn't your own, including images. People often post unattributed clarifying images copied from somewhere else. It is clear from the post that ...
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YouTube channel scraping Q&A from Stack Exchange [duplicate]
There is this horrible YouTube channel scraping Q&A from Stack Exchange without attribution to the author of either question or answers, and no links to the original post.
Stack Exchange licenses ...
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What is the proper way to attribute Large Language Models (such as GPT-3) when posting on Stack Exchange?
This is a follow up to Is attribution required for machine-generated text when posting on Stack Exchange?
What is the proper way to attribute Large Language Models (such as GPT-3) when posting on ...
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Is attribution required when using LLMs to improve the grammar/formatting of a post?
Let's say a user has posted a question/answer with the following content. The English is slightly convoluted but it's good content otherwise:
On enormous territory of park there are lakes, rivers, ...
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Is attribution required for machine-generated text when posting on Stack Exchange?
Setting aside the issues with spam and other illegitimate uses, is it necessary to provide attribution to works generated entirely by a machine? The US Copyright office states that such works are not ...
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Form to request erasure under GDPR doesn't indicate that attribution will be removed from all posts, a possible license violation
It's long been the case that when a user requests their account be deleted, all of their contributions are dissociated from their name. This would ordinarily be considered a violation of the CC BY-SA ...
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How can one handle copyrighted content when asking questions on SE platforms?
All the content in Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange (even this question) is under Creative Commons BY-SA, with the license version dependent on the date it was published.
If you are asking ...
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Are questions that have answers on other websites OK on Stack Overflow? [closed]
Following a comment I received on this:
Are questions that have answers on other websites OK on Stack Overflow?
For example, questions that have answers on the Pytorch forums, such as this one.
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If a user copies content from another SO post into his own post verbatim, is the attribution required according to the license?
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We recently had a situation on ru.SO, where a new user had posted 22 answers in 2 hours, 17 of which were copy-pasted from comments under the corresponding questions. Most of them were ...