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How Quora Died: The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing. (slate.com)

submitted 9 months ago by alyaza to c/technology

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[–] alyaza 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s been a shitfest for a while - it seems tailor-made for blowhards to speak authoritatively without having any real authority on an issue.

i'm sure plenty of people have made this joke before, but AI answers should have no problem fitting in with a culture of this sort!

[–] jarfil 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Food for thought: have AIs been trained using data scraped from Quora, like they used data scraped from Reddit?

[–] GammaGames 5 points 9 months ago

Almost certainly, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t