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Stack Overflow is making money by selling its database to AI companies. It chose not to reimburse the people who built that database.
by direwolf20 10mo ago
Stack Overflow is making money by selling its database to AI companies. It chose not to reimburse the people who built that database.
- shagie 10mo agohttps://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Stack+Exchange%2C+Inc.%22 https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Stack+Exchange... You can download the database for free. Trying to say "give us your payment and tax information so that we can pay you $0.13 for your contributions" would be even more insulting than not paying anyone. Doing renumeration for people in some countries could get legally challenging too.
- direwolf20 10mo agoDoesn't make a lot of sense, does it? But they adopted it as their new business model nonetheless. Just one more stupid decision on the pile.