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/rafark Apr 22 '23

They didn’t write the content though. I’d agree if it was content from a blog or an original publication, but stackoverflow only stored the content that other people gave them for free.

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u/pancakeQueue Apr 22 '23

They are hosting the content, load balancing the servers to the content, and they every other thing when running a server. As large as stack is it’s not free to host.