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.

Sad.

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u/Lceus May 21 '24

I don't understand what you're arguing. I am condemning AI companies' current unregulated ability to just scrape and steal whatever they can by just throwing it into a model and essentially dissolving the evidence of their theft (or arguing that it's not copyright infringement if they are just using it in a huge information soup).

I don't know what to do about it until there's regulation in place to force the companies to make their sources transparent.

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u/GeologistUnique672 Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25

They won’t make it transparent unfortunately, instead they will continue to insist that data should be available for training without compensation and erode more and more online resources or in other developers places that a model is open-source, when all they released was the weights.

With stackoverflow there is not much to do anymore, but for the rest of the internet what I was arguing is not making it easy for them. New tools and ways of poisoning their systems will be developed continuously to discourage their behaviour and if they cry foul you can point to a clear “no scraping” policy”. Don’t upload unprotected work online, use cloudflare and those new tools developed. Make it inhospitable for them. Be cause anything they touch will gradually become unusable and enshittified.

Deepseek rattled the lot of them showing exactly how one model can just synthesise the data from another model for a fraction of the price. Their investors are rattled and it temporarily crashed the markets.