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I understand the business motivation, especially because this is likely existential for SO, but it feels perverse to take information that people gave to help o
by ALittleLight 3y ago
I understand the business motivation, especially because this is likely existential for SO, but it feels perverse to take information that people gave to help others and try to paywall it.
- anant23 3y agoAgreed. But that’s the same mantra of any big co like Twitter, Facebook etc. they all monetize UGC in some form or the other.
- rs999gti 3y agoPaywalled for AI not for people doing Q&A.
- klyrs 3y agoYes and no. My first thought was "... and, what, pay royalties to the contributors?" But the thing that the ML community has been doing is wholesale IP laundering and somebody needs to hold them to task for that.
- ChatGTP 3y agoIsn’t this exactly what Open AI did ? Took SO’s data and put it behind a paywall, called it “AI”, it’s brilliant.