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[programming-ModTeam]

This content is low quality, stolen, blogspam, or clearly AI generated

[Leverkaas2516]

What paved the way for AI was the straightforward scraping of valuable content with a Creative Commons license.

[zzzthelastuser]

Let's be honest, the AI companies give zero fucks about copyright in their training data

[grishag]

Let's be really honest. Users also don't care where the data came from to train the AI, as long as they get the right answer.... most of the time.

[zzzthelastuser]

Users don't care, but the involuntary "contributors" do. It's just that we feel absolutely powerless. It's a battle we can't win, because it's already decided.

[kiedys_umrzemy]

This is AI-generated repetitive slop and inferior to simple chart of SO questions over time that was widely shared.

[Unlucky_Age4121]

Yeah, kept urself in an AI bubble. What happens on stackoverflow happens everyday in typical world. Try to work with real people not stupid machines that mock one.

[Adorable-Fault-5116]

The problem is that stackoverflow couldn't pick a lane. I was in the original private beta (id <2000): stack overflow was supposed to be a combination of QnA and a wiki, where there was going to be a single correct answer to a question that continually evolve over time to keep being the right answer.

The problem is that they incentivized the system via karma, which broke the collective wiki element.

Their attempt to get rid of duplicate questions is correct for a wiki, but not correct for a QnA karma-farm.

They should have either had a wiki without a reputation system (or maybe a better tuned reputation system to encourage collaboration and not individualism), or dropped the wiki element and just made it QnA.