Stack Overflow and OpenAI announce API partnership to bring technical knowledge to ChatGPT
Stack Overflow and OpenAI have announced a new API partnership, which will allow OpenAI users and customers to access OverflowAPI. This tool, resulting from the collaboration, combines Stack Overflow's data foundation with OpenAI's AI tools to provide a reliable data source for AI to quickly find solutions.
OpenAI plans to integrate validated technical knowledge from Stack Overflow into ChatGPT, offering users access to dependable technical knowledge and code. This integration is backed by a large developer community that has been contributing to Stack Overflow for over a decade. OpenAI will also use Stack Overflow’s OverflowAPI product to improve model performance for developers using their products, aiming to enhance the functionality and efficiency of the AI tools.
Stack Overflow, in return, will incorporate OpenAI models in the development of OverflowAI, working closely with OpenAI to optimize the performance based on insights from internal testing. This partnership is expected to yield new integrations and capabilities in the first half of 2024, demonstrating the long-term commitment of both companies to this collaboration.
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- Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its modelsTechCrunch
- Stack Overflow and OpenAI agree to use each otherThe Register
- OpenAI partners with Stack Overflow to make models better at codingVentureBeat
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It's likely that ChatGPT's training data already contains everything ever posted to Stack Overflow, licensing be damned. This move is more likely about using Stack Overflow data with citations. But even so, it is only users and third parties who are bound by the Creative Commons Attribution license in regards to Stack Overflow posts. Stack Overflow itself, and its business partners like OpenAI, are not thusly bound. I do agree with your assessment of OpenAI's priorities, however.
Look at the SO users' massive negative reaction: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/399619/our-partnership-with-openai
Considering ChatGPT doesn't cite sources, unlike FastGPT by Kagi and Copilot by Microsoft, these seems it will violate the Creative Commons Attribution license that the answers are licensed under... as a Stack Overflow user with significant reputation, this specific partnership saddens me. OpenAI is company for empire, not a company for humanity.