nixCraft 🐧Jan 4
This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent news, blogs, forums, and specialized sites like Stack Overflow is over. Whether this is good or bad, only time will tell. Personally, I think we are now restricting all internet traffic to just a few Gen AI apps https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
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Independent sites cannot compete with companies like Google, Microsoft, or OpenAI, which have unlimited money. Even Wikipedia has mentioned this problem. They are losing a massive amount of traffic from Google. These AI apps do not give credit or send users back to the original source on the web. As a result, people are stopped from creating new Q&A or editing and adding information to Wikipedia.
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@nixCraft [citation needed]
Jan 4 at 7:47amWeb
Show threadTill KleisliJan 4
@a2800276 there is a link in the post... @nixCraft
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@kleisli

I'm probably too thick to see it, this is what I was responding too:

"Even Wikipedia has mentioned this problem. They are losing a massive amount of traffic from Google. ... As a result, people are stopped from creating new Q&A or editing and adding information to Wikipedia."

Show threadTill KleisliJan 6
@a2800276 oh, sorry, I thought you were referring to the first post about stackoverflow.