<p>The company plans to sell its data to large-scale AI projects. So while we can't answer the question of whether or not the data will be sold to OpenAI <em>specifically</em>, we do know that there is a plan to sell it.</p>
<p>Paresh Dave. &quot;Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data&quot; <em>Wired</em>. April 20, 2023.  <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/</a></p>
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<p>OpenAI, Google, and other companies building large-scale AI projects have traditionally paid nothing for much of their training data, scraping it from the web. But Stack Overflow, a popular internet forum for computer programming help, plans to begin charging large AI developers as soon as the middle of this year for access to the 50 million questions and answers on its service, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar says. The site has more than 20 million registered users.</p>
<p>Stack Overflow’s decision to seek compensation from companies tapping its data, part of a broader generative AI strategy, has not been previously reported. It follows an announcement by Reddit this week that it will begin charging some AI developers to access its own content starting in June.</p>
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<p>SE appears to be undertaking steps to support this monetization. See:
<a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389922/june-2023-data-dump-is-missing">June 2023 Data Dump is missing</a></p>
<p>But now has has temporarily suspended those steps. See: <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/390200/320588">https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/390200/320588</a></p>
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