I've been talking to a few people/reading a few posts offsite and I think there's a great deal of confusion over.

There's a couple of key issues here with messaging

• the moderator teams were not given any prior notice of any of this, and we're likely the ones dealing with the fallout of people getting mad about it

• a lot of people think this is "getting genAI on the main sites 2.0", the press release links to teams but lacks clarity on its own merits.

• the press releases don't actually say anything about how OpenAI, Google and others intend to, or could use the API.

• to get any clarity over what the StackOverflowAI API is I'd need to waste someone's time registering as a potential end user.While the end points might be restricted, there might be value in having the API documentation open, and the actual API restricted.

• there's a bit of offsite soapboxing and people wanting to delete all their content which could/should have been avoided.

Essentially, we've got a ton of fluff and no clarity over what this actually means for us - nor do we have the tools to communicate with our communities over concerns they have. Considering the rocky road that we've had on the topic, I'm surprised no one thought about how to message this to the community.

As excited as y'all are about new partnerships, I feel like old ones got missed out - and an opportunity for open communication.

As a moderator, I don't know what to tell my community about this. Not in terms of "Oh god, its so bad" more of "I've got nothing at all" This isn't a good state of things to have.

I've been talking to a few people/reading a few posts offsite and I think there's a great deal of confusion over it.

There are a couple of key issues here with messaging:

• the moderator teams were not given any prior notice of any of this, and we're likely the ones dealing with the fallout of people getting mad about it

• a lot of people think this is "getting genAI on the main sites 2.0", the press release links to teams but lacks clarity on its own merits.

• the press releases don't actually say anything about how OpenAI, Google and others intend to, or could use the API.

• to get any clarity over what the StackOverflowAI API is I'd need to waste someone's time registering as a potential end user. While the end points might be restricted, there might be value in having the API documentation open, and the actual API restricted.

• there's a bit of offsite soapboxing and people wanting to delete all their content which could/should have been avoided.

Essentially, we've got a ton of fluff and no clarity over what this actually means for us - nor do we have the tools to communicate with our communities over concerns they have. Considering the rocky road that we've had on the topic, I'm surprised no one thought about how to message this to the community.

As excited as y'all are about new partnerships, I feel like old ones got missed out - and an opportunity for open communication.

As a moderator, I don't know what to tell my community about this. Not in terms of "Oh god, its so bad", more of "I've got nothing at all." This isn't a good state of things to have.

I've been talking to a few people/reading a few posts offsite and I think there's a great deal of confusion over.

There's a couple of key issues here with messaging

• the moderator teams were not given any prior notice of any of this, and we're likely the ones dealing with the fallout of people getting mad about it

• a lot of people think this is "getting genAI on the main sites 2.0"

• the press releases don't actually say anything about how OpenAI, Google and others intend to, or could use the API.

• to get any clarity over what the StackOverflowAI API is I'd need to waste someone's time registering as a potential end user.While the end points might be restricted, there might be value in having the API documentation open, and the actual API restricted.

• there's a bit of offsite soapboxing and people wanting to delete all their content which could/should have been avoided.

Essentially, we've got a ton of fluff and no clarity over what this actually means for us - nor do we have the tools to communicate with our communities over concerns they have. Considering the rocky road that we've had on the topic, I'm surprised no one thought about how to message this to the community.

As excited as y'all are about new partnerships, I feel like old ones got missed out - and an opportunity for open communication.

As a moderator, I don't know what to tell my community about this. Not in terms of "Oh god, its so bad" more of "I've got nothing at all" This isn't a good state of things to have.

I've been talking to a few people/reading a few posts offsite and I think there's a great deal of confusion over.

There's a couple of key issues here with messaging

• the moderator teams were not given any prior notice of any of this, and we're likely the ones dealing with the fallout of people getting mad about it

• a lot of people think this is "getting genAI on the main sites 2.0", the press release links to teams but lacks clarity on its own merits.

• the press releases don't actually say anything about how OpenAI, Google and others intend to, or could use the API.

• to get any clarity over what the StackOverflowAI API is I'd need to waste someone's time registering as a potential end user.While the end points might be restricted, there might be value in having the API documentation open, and the actual API restricted.

• there's a bit of offsite soapboxing and people wanting to delete all their content which could/should have been avoided.

Essentially, we've got a ton of fluff and no clarity over what this actually means for us - nor do we have the tools to communicate with our communities over concerns they have. Considering the rocky road that we've had on the topic, I'm surprised no one thought about how to message this to the community.

As excited as y'all are about new partnerships, I feel like old ones got missed out - and an opportunity for open communication.

As a moderator, I don't know what to tell my community about this. Not in terms of "Oh god, its so bad" more of "I've got nothing at all" This isn't a good state of things to have.