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The interesting thing is that on SO, the good stuff gets upvoted, while the bad/incorrect stuff is being pushed down or out completely. And it’s not rare that you see poor/wrong code snippets. Thanks to this mechanism, it actually shouldn’t be harmful to have auto-generated responses there, because they get reviewed and curated by humans. Isn’t the combination of AI legwork with Human review the best thing we have so far?

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StackOverflow and Wikipedia both depend on a particular dynamic. It's costly to come up with nonsense that looks right enough to pass, and it's easy to hit revert or downvote that content if it's fishy.

AI generation of nonsense flips that - it's easy and limitlessly scalable to come up with "rightish" stuff, and cleanup still takes human effort that scales at the number of engaged users.

That’s actually a remarkably insightful comment. Thank you for that.

Adding a bunch of noise to that situation is less than helpful.

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