Observer

Stack Overflow Will Now Make Search Smart, Less Spammy

Stack Overflow’s dedicated user base has made it the web’s best resource for questions on topics as far flung as Stack Overflow’s dedicated user base has made it the web’s best resource for questions ...
SiliconANGLE

Stack Overflow to provide coding knowledge for OpenAI models

Stack Exchange Inc., the operator of the popular Stack Overflow coding forum, today announced a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. Under the deal, the large language model developer will gain ...
Ars Technica

Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal

On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow’s technical content with OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI assistant. However, the deal has sparked ...
New York Magazine

The Hidden Power of Stack Overflow: How a Website You’ve Never Heard of Is Holding the Web Together

Let’s say you’re relatively new to coding. Maybe you’re studying it in college, or you’ve just started at an entry-level position after attending a five-week ...
Wired

Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data

Developing the AI systems behind tools such as ChatGPT and the image generator Dall-E costs hundreds of millions of dollars—and it’s about to get more expensive. OpenAI, Google, and other companies ...

Stack Overflow users don’t trust AI. They’re using it anyway

While the generative AI boom had tons of impact on all sorts of companies, it immediately upended everything about Stack Overflow in an existential way. Stack Overflow, if you’re not familiar with it ...
InfoWorld

The rise and fall of Stack Overflow

I can remember when the great Jeff Atwood (User #1) went on Twitter and asked people to suggest names for a website that would be useful for developers. He was vague about what that site would do ...