We’re thrilled to announce we’re partnering with OpenAI to bring best in class technical knowledge and the world’s most popular LLM models for AI development together! This groundbreaking partnership with OpenAI, which includes Stack Overflow working with OpenAI’s models to develop OverflowAI, will drive our mission to empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. OpenAI will also utilize Stack Overflow’s OverflowAPI product to accelerate the work of developers who use their product and inform improvements to OpenAI’s large language models by leveraging Stack Overflow content and community feedback. https://lnkd.in/eVvbWe2f
I contributed to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network for almost half my life under very clear terms: "contributions licensed under CC BY-SA" CC stands for Creative Commons. BY is for attribution. Will ChatGPT attribute me when it generates an answer based on my content? SA stands for Share Alike. Will OpenAI publish their output under the same terms me and millions of other users published their content, hence CC BY-SA? I know the answer to both questions. And yet, Stack Overflow wouldn't even allow me to withdraw or delete my content. As such, I have scheduled *all* my accounts across the Stack Exchange network for deletion, including my Stack Overflow account. Hell, I even was one of the first and loudest supporters of Stack Overflow en español almost a decade ago. I contributed to Computational Science, LaTeX, Esperanto, Travel, Signal Processing, Geographic Information Systems, Space Exploration, Unix & Linux, Ask Ubuntu, and a couple dozen other sites. All my goodwill, sold to AI grifters so that they can destroy the world faster. Adiós.
What Google should had done. For years we had used Google to search the best Stack Overflow reference. Me personally I had rarely searched directly on Stack Overflow and usually through Google using keywords. Then when ChatGPT came, still using both through skepticism,soon enough it was realized the generated code by ChatGPT were those exact trustworthy level upvotes from Stack Overflow or Public GitHub repos. The experience going from keyword searches to a convo. As a user, happy to see OpenAI and Stack Overflow develop this relationship.
Many times chatgpt didn't give me exact answers for typical issues I was stuck with. System or OS or CLI command relate d. And stackoverflow was the rescue. Coz folks faced similar issues and I didn't have to explain 20 prerequisite configuration settings for my use case. Hope they don't mess things up. Looking forward.
In discussions with my peers, we've been discussing on how OpenAI is dominating the landscape by Stack Overflow. However, I'm increasingly concerned about the prospect of these AI models being trained on human-generated data, and the implications of them eventually being trained on their outputs. It's a sobering thought — if these models lack robust training data, what does that mean for our future? It's a reality check that prompts us to consider the importance of ensuring high-quality training data for the advancement of AI and its impact on our future. Could be wrong, just my perspective.
So you gonna basically give them your answers data? 🙃
I can see that StackOverflow could act as a real-time feedback loop to refine AI models. Users could vote on answers, whether from humans or AI generated, ultimately enhancing the model's capabilities. So basically, questions can be thought of as prompts, and voting on the answers by humans can help the model ‘learn’ or be better.
If you can’t beat them, join them.
It would be interesting to see how this pans out to all those folks who basically spend time on stackoverflow answering questions, because of the points part of it. I started off that way too. But if there's going to be a bot powered by AI that feeds off of the vast knowledge base that Stackoverflow has, then how would the points part of it work. It will be interesting to see how that would shape up. But this is exciting stuff.
Does this mean ChatGPT is going to answer my coding question with a slightly agressive toxic answer - finishing the answer with "Irrelevant Question" or just remove my question altogether 🤣
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