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Makes sense, don’t MS own SO, GH, OAI, and Minecraft?
A match made in hell
What annoys me about companies like StackOverflow, Reddit, Twitter, etc. partnering with AI firms is that they do not actually create any of the content on their platforms. Sure, if you read the terms they technically own the data, but still…
Just more nonsense showing how broken modern copyright is. It’s too hard to write weasely legalese to just say you have the right to reproduce content submitted to your website, you have to own it entirely. And if you own it, why not sell it?
I don’t think it’s broken. I’m pretty sure it’s working as intended. In the early days of the colonisation of the web capitalists made it already pretty clear how property laws will be applied there.
It’s not difficult at all, these companies just have no reason to do it that way. They force you to agree to their terms before you can use the website at all, which means they’re in a much better position to make demands. We can’t counter with anything, it’s just “agree that we own this copy of your content”.
And most of us agree to it because we have no way of knowing that someday our content might actually be worth something.
“ChatGPT, how do I use a Java SQL connector?”
“Duplicate question, closed”
Are we sure this deal is about answering new SO questions with LLM? It’s more likely to be a deal where SO sells access to its database to OpenAI so they can use human-generated content for LLM training, and SO gets to use LLM as a more efficient search through its human-generated content.
It’s possible they could also choose to delegate the duplicate decision to the LLM but let’s be honest, that decision is currently crap anyway.
I think the joke is that the AI trained on SO data to the point that duplicate, similar, or common questions would get this treatment. Since that’s common enough on SO to be a meme.
Yeah, that was my assumption as well. I wonder how they’re going to work around that SO is getting spammed with AI-generated answers, though. You really don’t want your LLM cannibalizing itself.
Can’t wait to get insulted by the AI for asking a “stupid” question and be told the answer has already been asked without a link but with a passive aggressive tone hinting my family tree might have been close knit akin to a thumbleweed.
Or being to to google the problem with the only result being the question you just asked.
We will fondly look back on the days of finding highly specific dead forum threads that are a decade or more old about the issue we were having.
And a reply post saying
nvm figured it out
with no additional details
DUPLICATE COMMENT
Cool, I guess I’ll go delete all my stuff…
Why is the OpenAI logo an anus?
OH. Oh right. Sorry. Withdrawn.
Now they partner with OpenAI after banning AI answers provided by users? Wow, such hypocrisy https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/policy-generative-ai-e-g-chatgpt-is-banned
Were they trying to avoid having AI produced output sold as LLM input along with their human user generated content? I wonder if this was some big picture decision or pure coincidence.
Now they’re getting paid, so fuck you!
Are you serious? Such a great loss.
The snake eating its own tail
More the cow being fed its own brains.
glad i deleted my acct years ago
But all user contributions on StackOverflow licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0… right?
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit
So, if Stack Overflow generates text based on any answer (or question) in Stack Overflow’s DB, it must credit the person whose text it adapted.
Good luck with that…
AI can’t read terms of service.
Stack trying to remain relevant
Oops! All Wrong Answers!
If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em?
AI will be the downfall of AI
