[drubio]

It's funny, since Stack Overflow has done EXACTLY this since day one (i.e. generate cash, with user knowledge provided for free).

The only difference is SO uses community, gamification & reputation facades, to convince users to participate for free.

With OpenAI its simply a blackbox, no credit is given.

So I guess the lesson is people are willing to participate and share things for free, as long as they're given credit, community standing or something along those lines.

[Txmm]

For me it is less about credit and more about access. Stack overflow is public and freely available - I’ll give answers for the benefit of the community. ChatGPT is a product, it’s locked behind accounts and limited unless you’re paying.

They changed the deal on their end? I’ll delete my posts.

[amarant]

But your answers will still be available on SO, unless you remove them. Your answers were free and publicly available until you removed them. Making them also available to paying customers of chat-gpt does not change that at all.

In fact, chat gpt will probably still be able to answer those questions, so you removing your answers actually only removes them from the public, thus forcing people to use a paid product instead.

You had one goal, and your actions achieved the opposite.

Siuan Sanche's law of unintended consequences ought to be taught in primary school. Unfortunately it isn't.

[asadotzler]

That's a completely silly reply. SO didn't lock me out of the content I created there and charge me $20/mo to re-use it.