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For me it is less about credit and more about access. Stack overflow is public and freely available - I’ll give answers for the benefit of the community. ChatGPT is a product, it’s locked behind accounts and limited unless you’re paying.

They changed the deal on their end? I’ll delete my posts.

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But your answers will still be available on SO, unless you remove them. Your answers were free and publicly available until you removed them. Making them also available to paying customers of chat-gpt does not change that at all.

In fact, chat gpt will probably still be able to answer those questions, so you removing your answers actually only removes them from the public, thus forcing people to use a paid product instead.

You had one goal, and your actions achieved the opposite.

Siuan Sanche's law of unintended consequences ought to be taught in primary school. Unfortunately it isn't.

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