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> If answers are good, keep them. If they're bad, downvote them. If they're redundant or off-topic or gibberish, delete them. In practice this isn't possible.
by bastawhiz 3y ago
> If answers are good, keep them. If they're bad, downvote them. If they're redundant or off-topic or gibberish, delete them.
In practice this isn't possible. Lots of accepted answers are bad. Often for subtle reasons! An answer with a SQL injection vulnerability might get plenty of upvotes and be accepted, but it's objectively bad (even if it answers the question).
The problem is that there is no AI that's accurately fixing answers. AI only generates mediocre answers, it doesn't have the capacity to moderate mediocre answers. Humans simply can't keep up, or don't have the acumen to pick up on the subtle inaccuracies in accepted-but-bad answers (after all, that's often why they're looking for the answer).
Even with protections like rate limiting, I'm not sure you could prevent the majority of the damage that crappy AI can accomplish. Simply paying (pennies) for proxy servers with residential IPs gets around much of that, anyway.