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 GenIA-poison, or the services themselves will enshittify and sell our content (i.e. the commons) to LLM-creators.
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ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
dojan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Discord is terrible for this.
dojan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hate Discord with a passion. Trying to get everyone I know away from it.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
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.
dojan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah. But this already happens, unfortunately.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yes, it’s what I was referring to in the second part.
dojan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve never been accused of being a smart man.
fubarx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 🤷🏻♂️
vala@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You are assuming that people act in logical ways.
This is only a problem right now if you think about it.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Documentation will carry it a bit but yeah, it’ll be an issue
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Because we all know how perfect documentation is. 😂
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Fair point lol
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re probably hoping to use people’s submitted code for training. But that seems like it will be diminishing returns
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The snake eats its tale and it all degenerates into slop. Happy coding!