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    I was on it back when it was in closed beta and even went to their launch party. People were even saying how much the quality was declining as the closed beta got larger. 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.

    To react to the article:

    most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora

    The first one is subjective but the second one isn’t - and neither are true.

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      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!

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

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