Yes, it's been an important part of tricking humans into sharing their knowledge with other humans to obtain a huge Q&A dataset to train the AI without any consent of said people.
My goal from posting on various forums like SO is to scale the impact of my knowledge to as many people as possible, to give something back. I really don't care what modality or mechanism is used to distribute my contribution to others.
Why should I care if my SO answer I posted 7 years ago ends up in an LLM output in some random model? I wasn't getting paid for it anyway, and didn't expect to.
I view my random contributions across the web ending up in LLMs as a good thing, my posts now potentially reach even more people & places than it would have on a single forum site, that's the whole point of me posting online. Maybe I'm an outlier here.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/399619/our-partners...