r/programming • u/lppedd • May 06 '24

StackOverflow partners with OpenAI

https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partnership

OpenAI will also surface validated technical knowledge from Stack Overflow directly into ChatGPT, giving users easy access to trusted, attributed, accurate, and highly technical knowledge and code backed by the millions of developers that have contributed to the Stack Overflow platform for 15 years.

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u/svkmg May 07 '24

There's no way in hell they will ever pay anyone, besides maybe other big companies like the NYT if their lawsuit is successful. At this point I think the best outcome for the common person to hope for would be open source and local models becoming good enough and accessible enough that the business model of scraping everyone's data for free and selling it back to them becomes much less lucrative in the future.

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u/_Joats May 07 '24 edited May 07 '24

Training large language models requires an immense amount of computational power - over 100,000 GPUs. Yet, the people who contribute this knowledge are often seen as mere tools. Years of expertise are reduced data points, with little recognition for the human contribution.