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I always think people calling AI just ‘fancy autocomplete‘ haven’t really tried it yet.
Quora was already ruined and pretty much worthless for a very long time. When a query on google has quora, I hardly ever click on it as I know a) it won’t answer the question most likely b) I walk into this incredibly confusing ux experience.
On a seperate note, why do people feel the need to exaggerate their Quora profile/education level/accomplishments? I'm not the only one who's noticed how many Quora profiles are filled with ludicrous, self-aggrandizing descriptions, right?
I'm not a 100% sure, but I've got a feeling that having a well-regarded Quora profile became a Thing in India and other parts. Then people started spamming "answers" to every question they could even tangentially produce some gibberish for. 10 years ago Quora was a place where you could get an actual expert answering questions (a thing they should've done on their own site tbh[0] with references and actual insight. N…
This story is really interesting for all the not-specific-to-quora parts. It’s pretty obvious that quora has a strange culture of know-it-alls trying to show off, but this AI product makes it clear that the act of showing off is the product . The answers are garbage and they obviously don’t care. The key action for sale is not finding an answer, but writing it. What’s really interesting is that Quora product team dec…
"I would posit that there exists an opportunity to make a Twitter or Reddit clone that explicitly intermixed bots. Maybe even exclusively bots." To that I posit that Twitter and Reddit will morph into what you described. Maybe it already happened.
I can only assume that this is one of several reasons why the world’s largest social media company is on the cutting edge of LLM research.
Quora was already ruined and pretty much worthless for a very long time. When a query on google has quora, I hardly ever click on it as I know a) it won’t answer the question most likely b) I walk into this incredibly confusing ux experience.
Quora was already ruined and pretty much worthless for a very long time. When a query on google has quora, I hardly ever click on it as I know a) it won’t answer the question most likely b) I walk into this incredibly confusing ux experience.
Quora was doomed from the start. When StackOverflow started the founders and the early community put a lot of thought and energy into not becoming one of the niche expert exchanges that already existed at that time. Now, Stackoverflow failed, but not by repeating the mistakes that already had been made. That's not something that could be said about Quora.
Quora was already ruined and pretty much worthless for a very long time. When a query on google has quora, I hardly ever click on it as I know a) it won’t answer the question most likely b) I walk into this incredibly confusing ux experience.
Same. I really dislike how you open one question and it sort of mixes in answers to different questions. New reddit UI does something similar.
I always think people calling AI just ‘fancy autocomplete‘ haven’t really tried it yet.
Indeed, it's actually worse. You should only use it for stuff where factuality doesn't matter. Verifying that an answer is complete and correct is more work than consulting a reliable source in the first place.
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Quora was doomed from the start. When StackOverflow started the founders and the early community put a lot of thought and energy into not becoming one of the niche expert exchanges that already existed at that time. Now, Stackoverflow failed, but not by repeating the mistakes that already had been made. That's not something that could be said about Quora.
Why do you say SO failed? I thought it was quite successful.
(past tense)
I cannot remember a time when quora was not broken, so AI certainly didn't ruin it. The UI and their login popups have always been horrible enough that I try to avoid them. But in addition to that, most specific questions - the ones that would benefit the most from a nuanced human answer - get answered with generic copypasta. My impression is that Quota tried gamifying the process of answering... And they succeeded,…
Right at the start when there was artificial signup scarcity it was fantastic. Like hn great except for questions