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Tagged with attribution discussion
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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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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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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?
Backstory:
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 ...
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Stack Exchange copyright - where should we give attribution?
I know that code from the Stack Exchange sites is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA.
So if I use code from Stack Exchange sites, attribution is required (as mentioned in this article).
How ...
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Does a third party deleting an account that still has posts violate CC BY-SA 4.0?
According to Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license, you need to retain the name of the creator when sharing licensed material.
If You Share the Licensed Material (...
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Do the referencing guidelines apply to images as well as text?
I was having a discussion with a user who included an image in their post without indicating the source. My understanding is that any content that is not the work of the author needs to be attributed,...
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Does archival interfere with attribution removal?
There was a question asking about CC BY-SA 3.0's requirement to remove attribute on request. It was brought up that automatic archives may still preserve historical information, including attribution ...
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Is it rude to say "stolen from here"?
When I'm answering a question (not a duplicate one), I often copy-paste some contents from another answer and also provide the link to that answer. I think adding the link itself contradicts stealing, ...
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Can I accept a self-answer with content from outside Stack Exchange?
Here is my motivation: How to convert estimated precision to variance?. On the one hand, the provided answer is perfect in my opinion and could be accepted, but on the other hand it is not actually my ...
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How to attribute images in questions and answers?
When a question uses an image without attribution, and the source is not germane to the question or answer except insofar as proper attribution, what is the best way to attribute the image? In an edit ...
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Does the license given to Stack Exchange forbid the "additional terms", terminate the license, making it useless? [closed]
The term of service of Stack Overflow add "additional terms" to creative commons license. In question Are the SE additions to the Creative Commons attribution requirements enforceable? the ...
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Can I give attribution to authors only once after it was properly given or from a profile link in a page?
I read the attribution instruction here : https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/attribution-required/
And they are pretty clear.
However I still have a question!
- Repetitive Attribution
Say, that I ...
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How does Stack Exchange identifies another website outranking them on Google?
According to the stackexchange scraper policy you shouldn't report sites that:
They follow all the attribution requirements, and don't outrank us on Google
I've been thinking several ways to use ...
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Saw a website scraping contents of SharePoint Stack Exchange [duplicate]
I just stumbled upon this website:
http://meta.sharepoint.readquestion.com/
And this site has scrapped almost all the contents of SharePoint Meta and it comes on Google Search as well. Is this ...
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How, and why, did the code in my question end up in Pastebin?
I recently posted a question in Mathematica SE, Can a package append its context to $DistributedContexts?. Out of idle curiosity I then googled for some of the code in the question, and I was very ...
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When SE unilaterally alters an author's name to "user123xxx", isn't it breaching its licence?
A user recently left English.SE in dissatisfaction with other users' behaviour, and he asked SE to delete both his English.SE account and all of the work he had posted to that subsite. But while SE ...
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Does Stack Exchange take any measures against sites violating our license? [duplicate]
I updated an answer of mine with an improved solution:
Does PostgreSQL support "accent insensitive" collations?
I hit Google to find related answers that might be outdated now, just to ...
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What sort of attribution should Stack Exchange members expect for their work?
I've been thinking about the feedback over code licensing, and it seems like there's a significant gap in thinking between two portions of the user base - one that wants attribution, and one that ...
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Does the MIT license affect anything in academia?
Sorry this is not the most eloquently worded question, and I admit is loaded, but I am hoping some useful meta answer could come from it.
I just noticed this hot meta topic The MIT License – Clarity ...
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Is copy-pasting code from Stack Overflow an infringement to CC BY-SA 3.0 or is it considered fair use?
Actually CC BY-SA 3.0 is a license which looks pretty good for most Stack Exchange Network sites, but on Stack Overflow which is used mainly for coding questions, is pretty much rigid since a lot of ...
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Can I attribute the image, if post's author refuses to do so? [duplicate]
Can I edit someone's post and attribute the image or other foreign / cited content, if post's author refuses to do so?
An example. People say (in comments), that author should attribute the image, ...
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Does community wiki still have to be attributed? [duplicate]
If there is a community wiki post, does it come under the same attribution rules?
Or is there no need for me to link back to it?
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Are quote answers not answers?
Many people know that link-only answers are not answers, and they are normally deleted, or downvoted or whatever that happens to them.
Recently, there's been a bit of buzz surrounding whether quote-...
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What is the correct attribution for remixing content of answers.onstartups.com?
According to https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/04/when-a-site-grows-quiet/, data dumps of closed-down sites are available under the same CC BY-SA license as other data dumps. However, since the ...
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How to correctly attribute a list of howto questions, consisting of links to SE questions?
Do I comply with all the terms & conditions of SE, such as correct attribution, if on a webpage with HowTo questions I add a list with links to some questions on a SE site?
Here a 2 samples of ...
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Learning Or Getting Ideas From Some Code Under Creative Commons Without Attributing the User?
Let's say I was searching for how to hide the Console Window from a Win32 App and someone on Stack Overflow said something about FreeConsole() function or anything else so I went and checked the MSDN ...
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How should I attribute free images?
When I wrote this answer, I didn't want to confuse people with what type of paper clip I was discussing, so I hit up Google for free pictures.
I figured that, to keep site rules, as well as just ...
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Do I need to give attribution if I use Stack Overflow for learning new things?
Suppose I a find solution to my problem on Stack Overflow. Do I need to give attribution to the particular question that helped me? The license at the bottom says "you need to give attribution", but I ...
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Meta Stack Overflow to Meta Stack Exchange link migration Community Wiki post credit issue
With the recent migration of questions to Meta Stack Exchange from Meta Stack Overflow, there's been an automatic rewrite of links across the various Stack Exchange sites.
It's good that links have ...
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Attribution Required for non-web media
I read the blog post "Attribution Required" by Jeff Atwood. As I understand the post, SE "require[s]" that reusers "Hyperlink directly to the original question", that ...
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Does using rejected suggested edit text without attribution violate the attribution requirement?
I recently posted an answer to which a useful edit was suggested. It added a paragraph to the answer, and got rejected as an attempt to reply. It actually made a good point, and I ended up adjusting ...
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what should we do when a user copy answer and did not mention original? [duplicate]
I know something like this has asked before What to do about Copy Cat answers? But my question is slightly different.
What should we do when some user just copied the content from another answer from ...
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A user copy-pasting answers without proper attribution [duplicate]
I came across this user's profile while I was going through the close-votes queue and most if not all answers seem to be copied from other Stack Overflow answers or from external sources.
This is a ...
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How to handle several instances of unattributed/plagiarized answers
What is the best way to handle instances where there are many seemingly copy-and-pasted answers from other answers that lack proper attribution? There have been several questions posted dealing with ...
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Does the migration of edited posts violate attribution requirements?
I'm not meaning this to be a duplicate of this feature request. Here, I'd really like to find out if the current migration process is a violation of the license under which contributors grant their ...
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I made an edit to a post and a editor stole it [duplicate]
A couple of days ago I made an edit to a post, after a few minutes, I guess a reviewer, edited the post precisely how I edited the post and did not say I edited the post.
Is there anything that can ...
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What is the guideline for citing code from outside of the Stack Exchange network?
I needed a good way to validate a password check through angelorjs. I wasn't completely satisfied with the answers of this question since it didn't explain the problem very well.
Later I found this ...
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Future of Stack Overflow content [duplicate]
I am curious as to the possibility that in the future Stack Overflow makes money out of my volunteer work in the present.
What if in the future information about a specific issue is very hard to get ...
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Copying parts of others' replies into own replies
It has just happened to me in the thread below that there was an answer which had several mistakes, and there was no reusable bit inside in the initial version.
How to check the selected version of ...
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Crediting Stack Overflow or Exchange posts [duplicate]
Suppose I have a text with several references to Stack Overflow discussions. What would be the proper way to give credit to the authors of those posts without polluting the main text? Has anyone had ...
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Can I use my own answer on my web site without attribution? [duplicate]
Upon answering a question on Stack Overflow, say I wanted to use my own answer in a blog post (or something similar) on my own personal site. Knowing that the Stack Exchange's content is cc-wiki ...
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Do Stack Overflow answers require original content?
I just answered a question on Stack Overflow and it left me wondering if it was a "good" answer. I know that my answer works and I use it in my own code, but all I really did was quote the relevant ...
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