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What is the policy for Codidact data use by other, especially for-profit organizations?
SE recently made a deal allowing OpenAI to train their LLMs on community generated content (user-created questions and answers). Many active SE users were rather dismayed about this (including myself); some users saw it as a betrayal of trust.
Given that Codidact is a not-for-profit organization, and given that users of Codidact can include their own copyright and license to responses, you might conclude that this could never happen on Codidact.
But is it safe to assume that Codidact does not and will never allow a for-profit organization to crawl community created content and use this as data to be monetized? If it's not totally safe to assume this, is then at least safe to assume that if the Codidact organization board would in some dismal future consider making such a deal, that they would first consult the actual user community and try to reach a broad consensus?
Last question. If the answer to the first and/or second question is "yes", would it then not be more in line with Codidact policies or guidelines, to use the CC By-NC 4.0 license as default (and leave it up to any user to perhaps change this to CC By-SA 4.0)?
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