I played with ChatGPT today. It doesn't replace Google or SO today, and based on the types of issues with what it generated, ChatGPT is not going to replace a

I played with ChatGPT today. It doesn't replace Google or SO today, and based on the types of issues with what it generated, ChatGPT is not going to replace a competent programmer any time soon. Where I fear you might be right though, is that the web in general (and so, Google) and sites like SO with their internal content, will inevitably lose value as people post ChatGPT-generated content which superficially looks reasonable, but is subtly wrong. Wading through all those subtly-wrong things looking for the actual answer will be a far worse experience than today. Which is unfortunate. I don't see a good way to avoid it, sadly. SO's attempt to ban ChatGPT-generated content is useless: while people have the incentive to try to get kudos from SO, and ChatGPT requires skilled, detailed analysis to detect its errors, the ban is unenforceable.