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Perhaps not what you intended, but most of it is stored in various models' weights.
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Up until a few years ago, SO published full dumps onto the Internet Archive. There has been a community effort which has picked up the torch and is continuing to do the same on a ~monthly cadence.
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For better or for worse, the contents of Stack Overflow are literally the reason LLM coding has taken over the world.
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No, that's been mostly due to RLVR.
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They used to publish a regular torrent of everything, not sure if they still do that? Maybe you could grab yourself a copy for posterity.
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It's still possible to get a dump from the Settings page, just with a checkbox that says "if you use this for AI training we might ban you".
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You can automate it with browser automation tools.
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