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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 ...
The Verge

OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT

More information from Stack Overflow will appear in ChatGPT, and Stack Overflow will use OpenAI models for its products. More information from Stack Overflow will appear in ChatGPT, and Stack Overflow ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

What comes after Stack Overflow?

The future is unknown as developers start taking advice from machines rather than peers. How will we keep the LLMs honest? For more than a decade, Stack Overflow has been the go-to forum for ...
ZDNet

Stack Overflow joins Reddit and Twitter in charging AI companies for training data

This training data includes different subjects, from world history to software development to build its "intelligence," as well as grammar, speech nuances, and styles derived from conversations to ...
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 ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow

It would be easy to say that artificial intelligence killed off Stack Overflow, but it would be truer to say that AI delivered the final blow. What really happened is a parable of human community and ...
TechCrunch

Stack Overflow is remaking itself into an AI data provider

As part of Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Stack Overflow on Tuesday revealed a new set of products that aims to position it as a valuable part of the enterprise AI stack. This new version of the ...
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, ...
ZDNet

How Stack Overflow is adding value to human answers in the age of AI

The question-and-answer site Stack Overflow was founded 17 years ago to allow programmers -- human programmers -- to post questions about programming problems and get answers from a community of ...
SiliconANGLE

Stack Overflow launches AI Assist chatbot for developers

Stack Exchange Inc., the company behind the leading developer resource Stack Overflow, today announced the public launch of its new AI Assist feature. The company says it provides users with access to ...