From a programmer perspective, before ChatGPT and stuff, when I didn't know how to write a snippet of code, I would have to read and ask questions on online forums (e.g.: StackOverflow), Reddit, etc. Now, with AI, I mostly ask ChatGPT and rarely go to forums anymore. My hunch is that ChatGPT was trained on the same stuff I used to refer to: forums, howto guides, tutorials, Reddit, etc.
As more and more programmers, software engineers, etc. rely on AI to code, this means few people will be asking and answering questions in forums. So what will AI train on to learn, say, future programming languages and software technologies like databases, operating systems, software packages, applications, etc.? Or can we expect to feed the official manual and AI will be able to know how things relate to eacb other troubleshoot, etc.?
In a more general sense, AI was trained on human-created writing. If humans start using AI and consequently create and write less, what does that mean for the future of AI? Or maybe my understanding of the whole thing is off.
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