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Who brought Stack Overflow up? Stack Overflow does not magically generate code, someone has to actually provide it first.
by jacquesm 11mo ago
Who brought Stack Overflow up? Stack Overflow does not magically generate code, someone has to actually provide it first.
- Mtinie 11mo agoI generally agree with your underlying point concerning attribution and intellectual property ownership but your follow-up comment reframes your initial statement: LLMs generate recombinations of code from code created by humans, without giving credit. Stack Overflow offers access to other peoples’ work, and developers combined those snippets and patterns into their own projects. I suspect attribution is low.
- jacquesm 11mo agoStack Overflow deals with that issue by having a license agreement.
- mbesto 11mo agoTo be fair, their license agreement is pretty much impossible to enforce.
- Mtinie 11mo agoGitHub, Bitbucket, GCE, AWS…all have licensing agreements for user contributions which the user flagged as “public” so I’m not exactly clear of your point if you are holding SO up as a bastion of intellectual property rights different from the other places LLM training sets were scraped from.
- jacquesm 11mo agoI was not the person that introduced SO to the discussion.