Comment by wanderingstan
1 year ago
Stack overflow never owned the content, it is and was Creative Commons: https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
1 year ago
Stack overflow never owned the content, it is and was Creative Commons: https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
That license comes with obligations that the AI companies aren't following.
Its highly debatable if that's true.
The cc lience only applies to the presentation of the information, it doesn't apply to the factual content of the information. Which part openAI used is a matter of much controversy.
Well.. if given the right prompt.. it will effectively fully reproduce a stack overflow post in it's original form then there is no controversy and we can all see plainly what's going on behind the scenes.
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Cursor once wrote a comment, I prompted then « what is the source of the comment » and it replaced the comment with a stackoverflow url in which the page contained the said comment verbatim. I didn’t expect cursor to paste the full url
A distinction that is unfortunately as important as it is meaningless
That license is granted to the community, but per the linked Terms of Service, the company gets a slightly different license (https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#lice... ; scroll to "Subscriber Content"). Emphasis on:
> ... and you grant Stack Overflow the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to ...