So stack overflow wants to kill itself? How does that make sense?

Project Engineer

Founder

Hasn’t OpenAI already scraped all public data from stack overflow?

Software Engineer

Ahhh, there will be a nice storm on meta. The community has always been heavily against this.

Software Developer

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/stack-overflow-signs-deal-with-openai-to-supply-data-to-its-models/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaG1lbWUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJu8ov11cHnPT099azQ9sbHaiFfQedDrg8UQmSPXdfFHkfkhSFbP1IFQG4p26YZNu4Y0sNwRLNoLrR4Bt3NXqPdOz1ZtBYFs-Plbej79fd7yn6os_htSoMTwjUxz24_Bv082PtVRpJFNqTMzrLSqW_6R-BYubuwJMFJTpKwk4zIy

OpenAI is just shopping for more data access

Great, now AI will say my questions are "duplicate" and I should ask Y instead of X.

Perfect news for SDEs