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  • "are AI companies willing to pay" - I imagine SE is paying an AI company (possibly having some in-house staff customising established tools), not the other way around, for increase volume. Or there's a partnership with some future profit goals in mind. I can't imagine AI companies would be this desperate for training data, when there's so much data available elsewhere (even if plenty of that is morally and/or legally questionable). Commented Feb 5, 2025 at 15:55
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    @NotThatGuy This wouldn't be training data, but more verification of how good their AI is when applied. Commented Feb 5, 2025 at 16:52
  • A lot of this seems reasonable. The claim that Stack Overflow is the only site with major traffic is not obvious. Is there data supporting this? Commented Feb 5, 2025 at 17:48
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    @JoshuaZ stackexchange.com/sites#questionsperday eyeballing, easily more questions per day than all the other sites combined. Commented Feb 5, 2025 at 18:04
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    @JoshuaZ For historical records you can find some information here meta.stackoverflow.com/q/333743 Stack Overflow used to be a lot busier place with over 7000 daily questions asked. Commented Feb 5, 2025 at 18:32
  • Yeah, ok that's pretty compelling evidence that it is much larger than any other site in terms of activity. Commented Feb 5, 2025 at 18:55
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    It feels this reply has more insight and thought in it than the AI experiment. Commented Feb 6, 2025 at 10:05
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    "I can only see further decline of participation and traffic as the result." To be honest, I see that also without this experiment. Commented Feb 7, 2025 at 15:29