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So here’s what I don’t get. LLMs were trained on data from places like SO. SO starts losing users ,and thus content. Content that LLMs ingest to stay relevant.
So where will LLMs get their content after a certain point? Especially for new things that may come out or unique situations. It’s not like it’ll scrape the answer from a web page if people are just asking LLMs.
The snake eats its tail and it all degenerates into slop. Happy coding!
The need for the service that SO provided won't go away. Eventually people will migrate to new places to discuss. LLM creators will either constantly scrape those as well, forcing them to implement more and more countermeasures and GenAI-poison, or the services themselves will enshittify and sell our content (i.e. the commons) to LLM-creators.
I worry that the replacement is more likely a move to platforms like Discord. I mean it's already happened in a lot of projects.
Discord is terrible for this.
I hate Discord with a passion. Trying to get everyone I know away from it.
If they move to Discord, nobody will ever be able to find the answers. They must use a website that is indexable by search engines or it will be pointless.
Yeah. But this already happens, unfortunately.
Yes, it's what I was referring to in the second part.
I've never been accused of being a smart man.
Same question applies to all the other websites out there being mined to train LLMs. Google search Overviews removes the need for people to visit linked sites. Traffic plummets. Ads dry up, and the sites go out of business. No new content to train on 🤷🏻♂️
You are assuming that people act in logical ways.
This is only a problem right now if you think about it.
Documentation will carry it a bit but yeah, it’ll be an issue
Because we all know how perfect documentation is. 😂
Fair point lol
They're probably hoping to use people's submitted code for training. But that seems like it will be diminishing returns