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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.

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?

That's basically what most tech companies are trying to optimize these days, the ability to make money off of other people's work. It's why they're so hyped about trying to use AI to replace the very workers it's trained on.

Or being to to google the problem with the only result being the question you just asked.

DUPLICATE COMMENT

Yeah but a lot of people don't really know what SO is for. They think you just go there and get help and call it a day. But the entire point is to produce structured questions, discourse, and answers aimed at future readers. Super specific, no-context, or duplicate problems are not useful. If you are not trying to generate useful content, don't go to SO.

Just look at all the people getting frustrated at being told "you should probably do it a different way." They really don't understand that just because they're asking the question, it's not all about them.

Now they're getting paid, so fuck you!

That exactly tracks. You can't feed answers from an AI into an AI. It gets all incesty (technical term). So they have to ban user submitted AI answers.

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.

Banning AI answers was reasonable though. People were posting were too many not verified and incorrect code snippets that entire quality of the platform would decrease. AI still makes more mistakes than humans that provide responses on stack.

Does ChatGPT can really report you in case you say something like this? Is it just a threat or can it really become more?

As an AI language model I'm not able to answer duplicate questions and this was asked before. Closing.

Heh, just you wait

Me: How would I write a for-loop that starts from the end of a list?

ChatGPT: Closing this conversation as this question has already been answered.

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...

Oops! All Wrong Answers!

the reason I go to stack overflow is the answers arent hallucinated by an AI