"Community is the future of AI" Comedy gold. So first AI takes content created by human labor without permission or compensation. Then it centralizes the sum o

"Community is the future of AI" Comedy gold. So first AI takes content created by human labor without permission or compensation. Then it centralizes the sum of it and monetizes it exclusively. But wait, it gets better. You will now also supply your labor for free to fix/curate the current AI errors. Which will make the AI even better and more profitable, and yourself ever more obsolete over time. Picking our brains to create a giant private for-profit brain. Why would anybody willingly contribute to this scheme with their free time, in a backdrop where their own relevancy is at stake? There is no community without human incentives, every community will starve and die. You can extend this doom scenario to all open (web) content. More pragmatically speaking, StackOverflow is royally screwed. It was already on its way down for various reasons but this is a shock. AI coding assistants are rapidly spreading and improving, making it inevitable that programmers will have less need for a direct visit to SO over time. Worse, those actually keeping the site running is a small group of hardcore volunteers that you just alienated. The future is even more bleak for their enterprise product. Having your private copy of some data and training it for internal use is rapidly being commoditized. Many companies have a Microsoft contract, giving them (potential) access to Azure OpenAI that allows you to do just that. But that doesn't take it far enough and is just an intermediary step. Soon you'll simply point your enterprise AI at everything. Your Wiki, your documents, your SharePoint, your email. All of the companies' knowledge will be at your fingertips from any contextual UI, whether this is Word, Excel, Outlook or your code editor. And not just that, this enterprise intelligence will be combined with the world's intelligence. In such a future, would one seriously need a private copy of StackOverflow? The future I describe is about a year away.