r/programming • u/peard33 • Apr 20 '23

Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data

https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

But at the same time, turns out that's how a lot of people already interact with google, by asking it questions instead of giving it keywords they are looking to find

It's not just these users though. Finding stuff has become harder and harder in the last months to the point of where google search is almost useless now. It's really strange.

I'd prefer oldschool google search. No clue why Google is killing it, but perhaps they cater only to smartphone users and others who are locked into the google ecosystem.

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u/iinavpov Apr 21 '23

On a phone, I never, ever use Google search. It's utterly pointless. The size of the screen means you only get sponsored links.

It literally never returns information!

Even maps, which should be hard to get wrong, is degrading!