The authors of the following paper examine community response (fracture?) related to Stack Overflow’s decision to utilize user-generated content in their effort to commercialize AI product offerings.
We examine how Stack Overflow’s AI initiatives impact its open source knowledge community. Motivated by visible community fracture, such as a moderator strike and content vandalism, we use netnography with trace data to follow contributor reactions to AI venture announcements.
Productivity Gain, Community Strain: Stack Overflow’s Community Response to its AI Initiatives, by Dewan Scholtz, Anastasia Griva, Efpraxia D. Zamani, Kieran Conboy
This is highly relevant and telling as a cautionary example, particularly because many online communities are probably working on figuring out their positioning with respect to AI.