Google's Agreement with Stack Overflow Provides New Evidence That AI Powerhouses Will Pay for Information

One of the first websites to declare last year that it would charge AI behemoths for access to the content required to train chatbots was Stack Overflow. The well-known Q&A platform for programmers has now signed up Google as its first client, marking the beginning of a "meaningful" new revenue stream, according to CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar. The agreement is noteworthy since it is still unknown how much Google and other AI developers would spend on the content required for AI initiatives. The creation of AI systems has been aided by millions of books and websites, yet the majority of publishers have not received payment, and some are suing over alleged misuse. ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies seem to pose a threat to many publishers, including Stack Overflow, as they can respond to questions that would