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AI Ruined Quora

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Re: AI Ruined Quora

#41
Have you ever spoke with someone high on crack? Or a schizo?

That's how I feel when reading an answer in Quora after they decided to randomly mix answers to other questions into the one you're interested in.

Whoever decided to do that should be fired on the spot and never allowed to touch a product in its life.

Re: AI Ruined Quora

#42

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.

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Re: AI Ruined Quora

#44
post #3

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?

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Re: AI Ruined Quora

#45

It had too many Indians. Not that that's absolutely a bad thing, but it was bad for me because the answers tended to reflect Indian cultural perspectives and they weren't very relevant to me.

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Re: AI Ruined Quora

#47
Remember when Yahoo! Answers was so badly moderated that people asked stupid bait questions intentionally?

Quora has managed to successfully leverage AI industrialize the process. I won't miss them as much as Yahho Answers (which already isn't much).

Re: AI Ruined Quora

#48
post #40

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,…

You may have just joined late? Right at the start when there was artificial signup scarcity it was fantastic. Like hn great except for questions

That was a really long time ago though. It’s seems like it’s been awful for at least 10 years.

Re: AI Ruined Quora

#49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you say SO failed? I thought it was quite successful.

It was quite successful. (past tense)

I fear you might be true. I do worry though that a big reason LLMs are good and answering tech questions is that they’ve read SO

Re: AI Ruined Quora

#50
post #15

Quora ruined Quora. And it started well before the advance of LLMs.

Quora started out fairly interesting albeit often with answers written by self-evident self-promoting know it alls. That’s mostly a decade in the rear view mirror today it’s filled with people trying to shill, promote, or I don’t know exactly. In any case it’s largely low quality which of course drives any high quality answers even less likely to be contributed.
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