OpenAI and Stack Overflow Partner To Bring More Technical Knowledge Into ChatGPT

OpenAI and the developer platform Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that could potentially improve the performance of AI models and bring more technical information into ChatGPT. From a report: OpenAI will have access to Stack Overflow's API and will receive feedback from the developer community to improve the performance of AI models. OpenAI, in turn, will give Stack Overflow attribution -- aka link to its contents -- in ChatGPT. Users of the chatbot will see more information from Stack Overflow's knowledge archive if they ask ChatGPT coding or technical questions. The companies write in the press release that this will "foster deeper engagement with content." Stack Overflow will use OpenAI's large language models to expand its Overflow AI, the generative AI application it announced last year. Further reading: Stack Overflow Cuts 28% Workforce as the AI Coding Boom Continues (October 2023).

Creative Commons licensed code?

[Anonymous Coward]

So will the resulting code will be hampered by Stack Overflow's Creative Commons licensing? Not every country has Fair Use provisions in copyright law.

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[allo]

Not more than from the snippet you copy&paste from the SO answer without ChatGPT.

Irony

[jwymanm]

It is funny how for years forums and boards get pissed off when you add a comment to an old thread or posting aka bumping. Now AI will be using these old knowledge bases to form new knowledge and basically it will just be lost into ChatGPT instead of posted back on Stack or whatever. Never understood that policy of getting mad at posts from years ago that were helpful getting bumped with more knowledge or updated. You almost NEVER see a new thread that is as relevant as the old. In other words: screw you mo

Irony and the bridge trolls

[will4]

By the time I post a question on Stack Overflow, I've spent hours researching an answer, tried multiple different code samples or APIs, dug into vendor documentation, done extensive code traces and more.

I write up a complex question, provide multiple reference links with a one line summary of each link, related Stack Overflow questions, and wait.

Invariably some troll only wanting farm correct answer points closes the question as too broad, unclear, or another dismissive.

This is why Stack Overflow is rarely

And the bit-rot

[will4]

Stack Overflow should provide information and answers for questions and avoid bit-rot / link-rot.

Having been on the vendor deleted the old documentation merry go round a few times, providing a scenario, solution, business reason, technical background and technical explanation with excerpts of vendor docs, links to web sources is needed to provide a long lived answer.

The "look here " solves your problem from 5 years ago which links to void* now does not help.

And all of the "just use library X" 5 years ago, w

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[BeaverCleaver]

Stack Overflow should provide information and answers for questions and avoid bit-rot / link-rot.

Having been on the vendor deleted the old documentation merry go round a few times, providing a scenario, solution, business reason, technical background and technical explanation with excerpts of vendor docs, links to web sources is needed to provide a long lived answer.

The "look here " solves your problem from 5 years ago which links to void* now does not help.

And all of the "just use library X" 5 years ago, which now, is no longer supported, cannot be downloaded, wont compile does not help.

Damn straight. If Stack Overflow cached linked sites so that future users could still access the answers, that would be great. I wonder if anyone at StackOverflow reads Slashdot?

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[BeaverCleaver]

This is what happened in the bad old days when I used to work in tech support. We were ranked based on how quickly we "solved" problems. This created an incentive to say "reset your firewall" then hang up. If the customer didn't give up in disgust, it would also generate more calls for us to "solve."

It was a fucking joke, I once got chewed out by a manager for taking too much time to walk an elderly customer through a procedure step-by-step There were no other calls in the queue, so if I hadn't been actuall

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[theshowmecanuck]

I don't think you can. Not sure if you can go find all your posts, answers, questions, whatever and manually edit each on to delete the content, or maybe replace it with a single period. Or maybe ask ChatGPT to write a script to crawl your postings and do that. Wouldn't that be so good irony?

SO + AI = more bugs per mile

[awwshit]

Bug writing automation FTW

*grabs popcorn* ChatGPT trying to find the answer

[thesjaakspoiler]

on StackOverflow where an AI recommends the wrong posts most of the time.

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[ihadafivedigituid]

I came here to say this. "GPT Overflow" doesn't sound like a winning combo.

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[bn-7bc]

TCP/IP dead?, let's see SMTP still uses it, as does IMAP, any website still using pre QUIC versions of http/https and many other applications/protocols. May I ask where you have your data from?

ORLY

[Suripat]

Hope you ask me before having my comments shared with OpenAi.

The number of threads..

[Kelxin]

There's so many threads on stack overflow that some Indian literally copy pastes a bad answer over and over trying to get points, I don't see how this is going to end well.

Deletion won't work

[Alastair Cooper]

Whatever the wider debate, the Stack Overflow users who think deleting or amending their content from the live system is going to make any difference whatsoever t whether OpenAI has it are very naive. It may make it harder for humans to get them.