It is, as before: if the service is free, you are the product.
That being said, I think that to the extent AI is an actually helpful product, as opposed to social media, public forums, or free video hosting, the tradeoff is way more worthwhile. In my most humble opinion. I'm sure your calculus will lead to different outcomes.
yes, it's asked to produce something, but it won't see the result after substantial effort required to actually make it work
the interaction is not going to be nearly enough to produce useful training data to replace e.g. stackoverflow
and if GPTBot can reach your site, you are the product, they would make you their product even if you don't use their free service
but now they are not allowed to complain when others train models on GPT-4 data, they can become someone else's product too - see Orca, TinyStories and Phi-1.5
Then I download the docs and feed it into the LLM I have running locally.
if the fair use lawsuit succeeds and copyright protection over open source is essentially terminated: what companies are going to open source anything?
> how useful is the AI going to be?
In 2030 the AI can go and and search for the answer itself, by installing the environment in a container and trying to find a solution. It's something that is in some way possible even now, but probably not practical yet.
technology moves on
in 2030, when stackoverflow have folded due to lack of visitors, and all new data on new libraries/APIs are locked up beyond OpenAI's reach
how useful is the AI going to be?
the whole thing sows the seeds of its own destruction