[tsurba]

I guess SO was quite useful for providing a lot of training material for technical question answering for LLMs? I don’t think they got compensated for it so that is a bit sad.

In terms of my use, most questions and answers either were low quality, the question was a bit off of what you really wanted to know, or if it was a problem that required discussion or opinions, a ”real” hobbyist forum was better.

While at some point I felt like I (tried to) look up everything from SO, I now basically never use it anymore, but thanks for all the fish!

[michaelt]

> I don’t think they got compensated for it so that is a bit sad.

I'm pretty sure the people who posted answers weren't doing it in the expectation of getting paid.

[ludicrousdispla]

I stopped checking StackOverflow around 2014-15 because a lot of the answers/solutions were just wrong, as if they were copied and pasted in by the submitter without being tested. makes sense that it would be pulled into an llm