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Stack Overflow is feeding programmers’ answers to AI, whether they like it or not
Users are being reminded that they don’t own their posts.
Stack Overflow’s new deal giving OpenAI access to its API as a source of data has users who’ve posted their questions and answers about coding problems in conversations with other humans rankled. “The move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out,” read the updated post. If ChatGPT or another bot answers a question and part of it isn’t in the source cited, was it hallucinated, or did it come from somewhere else?
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