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J. Nathan Matias 🦣

Is anyone looking at levels of volunteer activity in digital public goods like Wikipedia, Reddit, and stackoverflow and whether exploitation of user content is associated with a decline in human participation?

As companies use ai to convert communal public goods into AI products, while extracting value from them, we could see a general decline in contributions that could lead to ecosystem collapse. Would love to see in depth scholarship wrestling with this. Cc @mako

infoworld.com/article/3478485/

InfoWorldThe rise and fall of Stack OverflowBig question marks hang over the programming and software development website with all the answers.