First, and most obviously, stack exchange does NOT own the forum content. It has been provided for FREE by the larger developer community, and that same community regularly makes use of the AI tools which will be inhibited by this policy change. Second, stack exchange is questioning the integrity of archive.org by hiding the data.
Developers are the real victims here, and the audacity of Stack Exchange to demand money for work they DIDN’T do, but continuing to NOT pay their forum contributors is peak irony.
> You agree that any and all content, including without limitation any and all text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio and video, animations, and product feedback (collectively, “Content”) that you provide to the public Network (collectively, “Subscriber Content”), is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (CC BY-SA 4.0), and you grant Stack Overflow the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, export, display and to commercially exploit such Subscriber Content, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by you as reasonably necessary to, for example (without limitation):
This definitely forbids the "I will not transfer it to others without permission from Stack Overflow" checkbox, as the CC BY-SA 4.0 license says "You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits."
Yes, with the promise of access to godlike oracles that the ancient Greeks couldn't have imagined, we're the real victims here.
Stack Exhange data really is the worlds best open Q&A dataset. Far cleaner and more reliable than anything else.
But LLM trainers are going to use it no matter what. It’s not like they care about copyright or licenses.
Discussion from then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257523
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/02/stack-overflow-acquired-by... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=prosus+multichoice [3] e.g. https://www.icann.org/en/registry-agreements/terminated/mult...
