The underhanded way SE has handled this is a problem, but deleting AI-generated answers is silly. They should instead ask SE Inc. to automatically provide one A

The underhanded way SE has handled this is a problem, but deleting AI-generated answers is silly. They should instead ask SE Inc. to automatically provide one AI answer for all new questions. Nobody wants to answer the same trivial question a 1000th time. Let AI do that. SE should be for questions that AI is unable to answer. CodeChef gives you an option of AI advice if your submission fails to build. It's very effective at solving beginner problems. SE should do the same. As a positive side effect, it would make spamming with AI-generated answers ineffective and thus save mods time on answers as well.