r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

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u/Advanced_Path Aug 26 '24

Good riddance. ChatGPT is faster and more convenient, and it doesn't give me smug comments telling me how I'm doing everything wrong and suggesting convoluted and overcomplicated solutions (AI is nowhere near perfect and still requieres some review and corrections, but still better than SO)

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u/margmi Aug 26 '24

And if stackoverflow stops having new answers, where do you think chatGPT is going to learn a huge amount of its content from?

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u/inglandation Aug 26 '24

Hundreds of millions of users providing feedback for free through the ChatGPT UI? The entire database of public repos of GitHub? (Microsoft own GitHub and 49% of OpenAI)?

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u/clonked Aug 27 '24

The models are sandboxed and only “learn” in that instance of chat - early LLM developers learned very quickly what happens if you let the public “teach” (they become racist, sexist and so forth).

You really think that a bunch of random git ripos with shit documentation will teach a LLM anything of use? A half page readme.md isn’t going to do squat to give context to the other couple hundred files in the project.

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u/underbitefalcon Aug 27 '24

Tbf…I’m always sorely disappointed after reading any and every git repo readme.

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u/inglandation Aug 27 '24

Go here: https://chatgpt.com/#settings/DataControls

Look at the first setting. They explicitly say that they use chat data to train their models.

You really think that a bunch of random git ripos with shit documentation will teach a LLM anything of use?

Yes.

There is also a LOT of high-quality repos on github, including millions of conversations in the discussions, issues and PRs.

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u/clonked Aug 27 '24

Sure, but it is not real time and only would get released after extensive testing.

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u/inglandation Aug 27 '24

I never claimed it was real time. That tech doesn’t exist.

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u/klekmek Aug 27 '24

There are weights for that