What irks me about this is that 100% of their data is provided for free, by the community that they have fostered, the people like myself who have answered > 2500 questions[0], and now SO feels hard-done-by by LLMs using all <i>their</i> hard work to create tools like CodeGPT, GitHub copilot, etc.<p>Were it really a site for helping developers to improve their skills and increase their productivity through the give-and-take model that SO was, at least once upon a time, SO should perhaps take a deep breath and realise that this might not change a thing apart from causing their contributors to feel like they were never part of it in the first place.<p>I'm not sure if I've correctly articulated that, but I do find SO's stance to be quite revealing. It feels to me like they're crying foul that ChatGPT and the how many other systems out there are stealing their revenue. None of the contributors (apart from the employee ones, I suppose) ever got paid any currency other than high-fives in the form of rep, medals, the gamified stuff, moderation rights, and at certain rep levels some swag in the form of t-shirts and the usual.<p>I never wanted any money from SO, but the revelation of this attitude has left me feeling, well, a little sad to say the least.<p>[0]<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/70393/karim79" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/users/70393/karim79</a>