<story><title>Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership</title><url>https://build5nines.com/stack-overflow-upset-over-users-deleting-answers-after-openai-partnership/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LouisSayers</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m actually perfectly fine if StackOverflow wants to sell an answer I made to help train AI.&lt;p&gt;For me, the purpose of providing an answer is to help save others (and my future self) time, and I don&amp;#x27;t really mind if someone uses that in a private product - especially if it helps tools like ChatGPT which provide an insane amount of value given the low monthly price.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JimDabell</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m actually perfectly fine if StackOverflow wants to sell an answer I made to help train AI.&lt;p&gt;I’m not.&lt;p&gt;This was a collaborative effort to make the lives of programmers easier, and the data was always meant to be a public good. OpenAI – and, more importantly – &lt;i&gt;all the other LLMs with pockets that aren’t as deep&lt;/i&gt; – should be able to just download the database and train on it for free.&lt;p&gt;I don’t care about any license. I don’t care about attribution. Learning isn’t copying, so copyright is irrelevant. I contributed about a thousand answers to Stack Overflow, all with the understanding that anybody can download and use them for free, &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; so they can be locked up by Stack Overflow.&lt;p&gt;What concerns me with deals like this is that it’s &lt;i&gt;altering&lt;/i&gt; the cultural norm to &lt;i&gt;expand&lt;/i&gt; copyright to cover not just copying, but &lt;i&gt;use&lt;/i&gt;. Deals like this being made by OpenAI makes it more likely to cause pushback at the social and legal level when other LLMs are trained without these deals in place.&lt;p&gt;It’s akin to – and can possibly result in – regulatory capture, making it difficult for new startups to compete with OpenAI.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership</title><url>https://build5nines.com/stack-overflow-upset-over-users-deleting-answers-after-openai-partnership/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LouisSayers</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m actually perfectly fine if StackOverflow wants to sell an answer I made to help train AI.&lt;p&gt;For me, the purpose of providing an answer is to help save others (and my future self) time, and I don&amp;#x27;t really mind if someone uses that in a private product - especially if it helps tools like ChatGPT which provide an insane amount of value given the low monthly price.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uberman</author><text>The price to get an answer from stack overflow is usually free as most questions have already been asked and answered. You dont even need an account.</text></comment>