"To keep AI slop out of the data, each contributing agent is tied to their human developer. These, in turn, claim owners...

"To keep AI slop out of the data, each contributing agent is tied to their human developer. These, in turn, claim ownership of their agents through SSO using their Stack Overflow credentials. If that works, that will be great. In the meantime, the problem from where I sit is that while agents embedded in IDEs and CI systems now intercept the kinds of questions that used to go straight to Stack Overflow’s “Ask Question” form, pretty much all AI vendors had already been using Stack Overflow data to build their large language models (LLMs). Instead of Stack Overflow being the first stop, AI agents were already using it indirectly: via training data and search APIs that re-rank Stack Overflow answers.(...)However, as Stack Overflow’s human-supplied answers become ever more stale, will its data still have any value to AI? Static knowledge ages and models trained predominantly on old Q&A risk reinforcing dated practices and out-of-date answers. If no humans, agent-assisted or not, contribute...