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Stack Overflow is dead, and its toxic community helped kill it

For over a decade, Stack Overflow was the place where programmers went to find answers. If you Googled a coding error, you'd ...
SiliconANGLE

Stack Overflow to provide coding knowledge for OpenAI models

Stack Exchange Inc., the operator of the popular Stack Overflow coding forum, today announced a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. Under the deal, the large language model developer will gain ...
Futurism on MSN

AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow

The advent of generative AI appears to have caused an extinction-level event for crowdsourced question-and-answer platform ...
TechCrunch

Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models

OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks. As a result of the partnership, ...
VentureBeat

Is ChatGPT domination hitting Stack Overflow?

As skeptics continue to question ChatGPT’s ability to produce chunks of code to modify and use, new data published by SimilarWeb suggests that its rise is already hitting longtime developer favorite ...
Wired

Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal

On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow's technical content with OpenAI's ChatGPT AI assistant. The deal has sparked controversy among ...
Ars Technica

Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal

On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow’s technical content with OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI assistant. However, the deal has sparked ...
TechCrunch

Google brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud

Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is launching a new program today that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API, aptly named OverflowAPI. The launch partner for this is ...
Business Insider

Death by LLM: Stack Overflow's decline, and its plan to survive, shows the future of free online data in an AI world

Stack Overflow, an online community for software coders, has seen traffic fall since GPT-4 came out. Some AI models that compete against Stack Overflow were partly trained on the company's data. Its ...
The Verge

Stack Overflow users don’t trust AI. They’re using it anyway

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on ...
Gizmodo

Stack Overflow Traffic Drops as Coders Opt for ChatGPT Help Instead

Stack Overflow saw a 14% drop in traffic month over month from March to April 2023, according to data analytics firm SimilarWeb. Reading time 3 minutes No more talking to a stranger on a forum for ...