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Let's say you spend days or weeks making a piece of art for a friend for their birthday. 2, 3 years later it's no longer hanging their bedroom, and you ask, an

• gruez 2y ago
  >2, 3 years later it's no longer hanging their bedroom, and you ask, and they tell you they sold it for $50k. The analogy fails because in this case, the painting is still on their bedroom, just like how the guy's stackoverflow answer is still on stackoverflow. Moreover, when you contribute to stackoverflow, you agree that your work is licensed under a creative commons license. So it's the equivalent of giving your friend a painting, telling them "oh btw you can do whatever you want with it, as long as you attribute back to me", and then get mad that they digitized it and put it on their blog. Finally, let's be real here. This isn't a painting worth $50k. No one's comment is worth anywhere near that. It's hilarious how many of the same talking points from discussions on piracy from a decade ago has been reused in discussions about LLM training data (eg. "piracy = theft" -> "LLM training = theft")
• Gigachad 2y ago
  Stackoverflow isn’t your friend. It’s more like you donated it to a thrift shop and they resold it for $10.