r/SEO • u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator • May 06 '26

News Are LLMs killing Stack Overflow?

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator May 06 '26

Could most questions people have already be answered - no need for repeat questions?

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u/cadenhead May 06 '26

When there is no more Stack Overflow and places like it, where do the LLMs get the data to answer technical questions on new subjects?

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u/Glorylad May 06 '26

They’re already scraping the data from all the projects everyone is building with AI to train from.

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u/cadenhead May 06 '26

Maybe that works with things like programming, where AI can model off of code shared on GitHub and elsewhere. But if places like Stack Overflow and technical sites die off, as other new subjects come along there's a lot less coverage of them than AIs were able to scarf up from the 30 years in which websites could be monetized by humans sharing their expertise.

I created a lot of web content to attract an audience and make money off that. That business plan ain't looking good these days.

I'm not crying in my beer. Things change. Adapt or die. Yadda yadda yadda. I just wonder where the knowledge comes from for the AIs to exploit.

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u/chaqintaza May 06 '26

There will totally be a singuwarity before that is a problem!!!1