Re: The end of stackoverflow?

On 10/05/2024 5:16 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:

On 10-May-24 2:55 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal
  https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/stack-overflow-users-sabotage-their-posts-after-openai-deal/
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The end of stack overflow?
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Personally I know companies are using my open sourced stuff..
Let it be...
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I like Stackoverflow, it gave me many good answers in the past
to difficult questions...
Many highly qualified people there.
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 One often has to trawl through a number of suggested solutions, either because most of them are wrong (or at least wildly apocryphal), irrelevant, or because the same or similar symptoms can have many different underlying causes.
 I have to wonder whether a language model is really up to the task of filtering out the dross, while keeping the important parts.

And Jan Panteltje wouldn't notice. His enthusiasm for the the Le Sage theory of gravity is an example of his latching onto dross.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney