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OpenAI took all of StackOverflow's content to train their LLM, and now it's clear they stole their audience and revenue, too.
by cratermoon 2y ago
OpenAI took all of StackOverflow's content to train their LLM,
and now it's clear they stole their audience and revenue, too.
- mirzap 2y agoStackOverflow was in a downward spiral regardless. Without LLMs, it would take a few more years, but nothing would change. Their content moderation policies were poor, driving people away.
- cratermoon 2y agoSo the solution to the downward spiral is to strip-mine the source and leave a giant hole? No effort into shoring up and preserving the existing resource?
- lovich 2y agoThe existing resource was already dead. It had turned into little fiefdoms and power plays because of how perms were handed out.
- cratermoon 2y agoThese responses remind me a bit of how colonial settlers in North America justified their actions by saying the natives weren't "using" the land and resources. This of course was after the indigenous population had been devastated by smallpox and other diseases.
- dpkirchner 2y agoNobody's stopping the owners of SO from making improvements to address the downward spiral -- it's a problem that is entirely of their own making.
- Maxatar 2y agoI'm surprised that ChatGPT is able to answer questions directly unlike on StackOverflow where so many questions are met with "But why would you want to do that? Clearly what you want to do is <insert over-engineered architecture to solve simple problem>."