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I don't use StackOverflow anymore since ChatGPT launched.

It's kind of not fair because a large part of ChatGPT being able to answer code questions correctly comes from the SO corpus... but... well life's unjust.

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I still like looking at SO, not for the answer per se, but to see all the other possible solutions. Even if they're wrong, I usually learn something. Either what not to do, or a neat trick I had not seen before.

User content on StackOverflow is licensed openly (CC-BY-SA), as it should be. So it's absolutely fair game for reuse.

I have a lot of sympathy with people whose all-rights-reserved content has been repackaged by LLMs and similar, but that's not StackOverflow. SO got free contributions from its users; the company didn't write them itself.

The problem isn't one of legality, but practicality. If SO becomes a ghost town, all LLMs suffer, including OpenAI's.

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