• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    14 hours ago

    And you think MS dropped $7.5B to get the data stackoverflow publishes every year for free?

    Of course owning data from the most popular development platform was useful to them but they didn’t buy to get data to train “expert system” or LLMs. They wanted to have direct contact with huge numbers of developers so they can sell them their products.