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Stack Overflow has recently announced OverflowAI and I think this video summarises pretty well this. The main drawback is that the users are less incentivized to put effort into answering questions and have this effort being fed into SO's LLM.

I am wondering if it makes sense to start blocking known agents that feed LLMs. I am thinking specifically about ChatGPT-User. This seems to be very simple to do, as shown in this article: disallow ChatGPT-User user agent on the site in the robots.txt.

I know the community is small now, but it growing, especially due to SO's decline, and one day it might become interesting for ChatGPT and others.

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