> The claim I've heard is that you're essentially feeding your own knowledge for free into a proprietary system that can be used to generate cash for whatever corporation owns that system
Which is exactly how Stack Overflow has operated from day 1: You feed your knowledge into a system owned by someone else.
Also, it’s ridiculous to think that the answers haven’t already been scraped and cataloged every which way for AI training purposes.
The only people who suffer at this point are the people trying to use Stack Overflow. Deleting posts now is an own goal. People will see the information missing from Stack Overflow and switch to asking ChatGPT.
Which is exactly how Stack Overflow has operated from day 1: You feed your knowledge into a system owned by someone else.
Also, it’s ridiculous to think that the answers haven’t already been scraped and cataloged every which way for AI training purposes.
The only people who suffer at this point are the people trying to use Stack Overflow. Deleting posts now is an own goal. People will see the information missing from Stack Overflow and switch to asking ChatGPT.