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Is AI Hastening the Demise of Quora?


Quora "used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions," writes Slate. "But users are fleeing," while the site hosts "a never-ending avalanche of meaningless, repetitive sludge, filled with bizarre, nonsensical, straight-up hateful, and A.I.-generated entries..." ...

High-profile users, like fantasy author Mercedes R. Lackey, are removing their work from their profiles and writing notes explaining why. thing, the terms of service issue, has been a massive drain of top talent on Quora, just based on how many people have said, Downloaded my stuff and I'm out of there," Lackey told me. The article notes that Andreessen Horowitz gave Quora "a much-needed$75 million investment — but only for the sake of developing its on-site generative-text chatbot, Poe."

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