Tech Q&A Community Experts Exchange is taking a stand against AI. While competing sites have opted to sell their data to LLMs and start using AI to answer queries, Experts Exchange has taken a stand for human intelligence. With Experts Exchange, your data will never be sold to improve AI, ensuring that your personal information is kept safe and you are part of an entirely human community.
Since 1996, Experts Exchange has been fostering a community of tech enthusiasts who post and answer questions for each other, building a library of valuable information for any developer. Today, nothing has changed.
In the late 2000s, several former employees of Experts Exchange left the company to form a competing site, which would become Stack Overflow. The concept behind the new company was that it was a completely free service, while Experts Exchange requires a subscription fee to have access to the full site. However, just a few months ago, Stack Overflow announced that it would be giving large language models (LLMs) full access to the site’s considerable library of technical information.
LLMs are fed human content so they can produce better artificial intelligence. Users were understandably upset, and some tried to delete their presence from Stack Overflow. They discovered that the site does not allow users to delete comments or posts. Many felt that selling information to LLMs and preventing users who did not want their data accessed by LLMs from deleting content were major violations of privacy and trust.
This is in stark contrast to Experts Exchange, which has taken a strong stance against selling data to LLMs. While the sites have been competing for decades because of Stack Overflow’s free model, the two are beginning to diverge over the issue of AI in technology communities.
Experts Exchange has chosen not to compromise its principles or the safety of its users to stay afloat. The company already has a strong financial model that allows it to guard users against LLMs and encroaching AI bots. Moderators strictly prohibit bots from posting on the site, and the company has measures in place to block any LLMs from scraping data from the site. Experts Exchange is a fully human site with a strong community and a deep history of providing expert customer service.
Experts Exchange is a private community of tech professionals seeking to uplift and help each other. This thriving family of tech enthusiasts is the place to find answers to your tech questions. While Experts Exchange does come with a subscription model, that cost includes the knowledge that your data is solely your own.
The company also understands that investing in an online service can be a difficult decision. That is why the site is currently offering a 90-day free trial with no credit card information on file. Experts Exchange usually only allows a 7-day free trial with a credit card, but in light of Stack Overflow and Quora’s AI partnerships, the company wants to give those who are not used to a paid model a chance to understand the Experts Exchange experience. New users can spend 3 full months learning the ins and outs of the Experts Exchange model before choosing if the subscription is right for them.
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