[mindcrime]

So the "AI Giants" that have already trained models using SO / Reddit data will have a perpetual advantage over any newcomers trying to come up. So yeah, totally not a fan of this position from SO / Reddit. Anybody trying to democratize access to foundation models, who isn't (Google|OpenAI|Meta|Microsoft) is now going to find the on-ramp even steeper than ever. As if it wasn't bad enough just paying for compute time.

OTOH, I get why Reddit, SO, etc. would take this position. And I have some sympathy for them in that regard. But the idea of locking in the centralization of powerful AI models is, to me, a bigger problem than Reddit or SO optimizing their profit margin by a percentage point or two.

[pharmakom]

Perhaps but stack overflow answers have a shelf life. Who cares how to fix an obscure React 3.0 issue these days?

[Karawebnetwork]

One of my main use of AI right now is using it to answer legacy questions. Searching for old AngularJS (not Angular) question online is painful, yet ChatGPT is able to come up with explanations, code snippets and even outright provide code based on prompts.