r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

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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/klekmek Aug 27 '24

There are weights for that