Stack Overflow Just Announced Their Own AI OverflowAI

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Announcing OverflowAI
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Can someone tell me what their angle is? Are user's supposed to curate and help train the model for free? Is it just a model trained on stackoverflow data?

All their data is open so what edge do they over the already established competition.

This type of Q&A interface is very popular and stealing traffic away from sites like Google and Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow can train it on their data and has a feature where it links to every answer it pulled from. I think that's a nice feature and like that I can troubleshoot further on my own, as AI can often hallucinate an answer or lose a piece of context I need.

I think SO has had people hallucinating for some time but it wasn't AI driven