The SO data was always licensed as CC-attr (I think?) so LLMs could and should use it. The SO value was never supposed to be the data; it was the platform and community, and this is the part SO (VC-fueled version) has destroyed.

I'm just glad Jeff and Joel got their payday. Jeff really deserved to win the internet lottery, and on the whole Joel was a net positive for the internet and my career personally.