<story><title>Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering</title><url>https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partnership/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luis02lopez</author><text>Yeah, the problem is that you are relying on free contributors, these free contributors will get discouraged if your ideas can just be stolen by ChatGPT as their idea for a solution.</text></item><item><author>foundart</author><text>On SO I can spend time digging through the questions the search index thinks are related, reading through the answers and the comments on the answers. If I&amp;#x27;m lucky I find what I need. If not I then need to spend another bunch of time trying to formulate a question in a way that won&amp;#x27;t get down voted or marked as a duplicate.  Then I need to wait for an answer.&lt;p&gt;Or I can spend a much shorter amount of time formulating a question for Chat-GPT and generally get a helpful, focused answer without any pedantic digressions.&lt;p&gt;It seems likely that the AI benefits from the information in SO. If Open AI can help improve the SO experience that would be fantastic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbn</author><text>Most SO answers are clarifying a niche implementation detail or gotcha of a programming language, troubleshooting someone&amp;#x27;s build configuration, etc. If an LLM trained on that info and later helped someone solve their problem by spitting out an answer, I don&amp;#x27;t see who was discouraged, nor do I think any &amp;quot;ideas&amp;quot; were &amp;quot;stolen.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t go to SO to crowdsource creative ideas. It&amp;#x27;s for very specific one-off questions that many people will likely find themselves asking at some point.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering</title><url>https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partnership/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luis02lopez</author><text>Yeah, the problem is that you are relying on free contributors, these free contributors will get discouraged if your ideas can just be stolen by ChatGPT as their idea for a solution.</text></item><item><author>foundart</author><text>On SO I can spend time digging through the questions the search index thinks are related, reading through the answers and the comments on the answers. If I&amp;#x27;m lucky I find what I need. If not I then need to spend another bunch of time trying to formulate a question in a way that won&amp;#x27;t get down voted or marked as a duplicate.  Then I need to wait for an answer.&lt;p&gt;Or I can spend a much shorter amount of time formulating a question for Chat-GPT and generally get a helpful, focused answer without any pedantic digressions.&lt;p&gt;It seems likely that the AI benefits from the information in SO. If Open AI can help improve the SO experience that would be fantastic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foundart</author><text>Agreed, and I believe SO and OpenAI must realize this also. It&amp;#x27;s in everyone&amp;#x27;s best interest to keep the contributions coming. I certainly hope they can figure out a way to achieve that.</text></comment>