Mastodawn

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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nixCraft 🐧Jan 4

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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Carsten Hoffmann

@nixCraft while you have a point, what you write dos not apply in full intent to all of them. ChatGPT for example gives citations and links to web findings so the user can jump to the original content when performing web research.

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TiTiNoNero

Jan 5

@morl99 @nixCraft

Yeah, they can jump to an Ai-slop filled website optimized for Ai crawlers. Or to an advertised website? Or there is any way to tell what is what if you never had to scroll three of four pages of search results on old search engines? You gotta develop some instinct and sensitivity, why should you stop at the first citation by an LLM and call it a day?