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What I don't understand is why Quora would be auto-generating an answer for this question in the first place. The theory in the tweet that it's about identifyi

by jsnell 3y ago

What I don't understand is why Quora would be auto-generating an answer for this question in the first place. The theory in the tweet that it's about identifying a frequent query doesn't really explain anything: the question already had two answers written by humans years ago, there was no need for them to come up with additional answers.

skepticATX 3y ago
Quora’s CEO is on OpenAI’s board.
- bagasme 3y ago
  I wasn't surprised then...
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
gchamonlive 3y ago
Best way to lure VCs in their natural habitat and trap them.
zaptrem 3y ago
It’s like if StackOverflow automatically added a link to lmgtfy to every new question. If people wanted ChatGPT’s answer they’d just go to ChatGPT or Bing.
sp332 3y ago
I don't use Quora much, but this widget has been at the top of every page I think.
- ok123456 3y ago
  Quora never renders correctly for me. So I never click it.
bagasme 3y ago
And when Quora also shows answers from "related" (but IMO not strictly related to the original question in question) by default, I think these answers are mostly incorrect when being applied to the original question.
jacurtis 3y ago
Quora is already a dumpster fire. Everytime I go to quora from Google, I see the question at the top, but then right below it I see answers for different questions. You have to scroll past those, past a block of ads, past a sponsored answer (to another unrelated question), just to get to the answer, which itself is an confidently incorrect human that is just peddling their own website for SEO juice, and it is truncated at 2 lines, which means you need to click "read more" which spawns an additional set of ads that you need to scroll past to read lines 3 and 4 of the question. I visited a link this week and saw ChatGPT as the top result and I thought the same thing. Is Quora signaling to me that you are better off not asking our community for questions, just throw it to the AI gods and good luck. Oh and look at these 3,000 ads and take these 209 cookies before you go. Luckily I search with Kagi now, so I told it to just never give me search results with Quora in it. I'd prefer not knowing that dumpster fire of a website still exists.
- sixQuarks 3y ago
  I don't even ever clickthrough to Quora anymore. It's useless, you never get the answers to the question unless you login, and even then it shows only one or two answers and bombards you with other unrelated questions.
- ssl232 3y ago
  Agreed, there was only a narrow period a long time ago where Quora was usable and useful. It's been a domain I've skipped visiting in search results for maybe 10 years now.
  - zadik 3y ago
    [flagged]
    - spacemadness 3y ago
      I guess the question then is why in the nine hells is what they’re doing profitable now? Is it more and more profitable being entirely useless and becoming more profitable? That seems insane to me.
noodlenotes 3y ago
It seems like a common occurrence for me to google some slightly obscure question and not see any directly relevant search results except a Quora link (usually the other results have my keywords but don't answer the specific question). When I click on the Quora link, I'll find that someone else has asked my exact question but there are no answers. I appreciate the ChatGPT answer because my next step would probably be ChatGPT and it saves me a few clicks. (Based on the other comment, now I wonder if I just didn't find the human answers due to bad UI.)
- jsnell 3y ago
  Right, a case where there are no human answers (or no good ones) is one where it at least makes local sense for Quora to put in an AI generated response. I think it is not the right solution globally, but I can see how from their perspective having bad content is better than no content. But this is them putting AI nonsense before good human answers. It can't be the right choice for any of the stakeholders.
water-data-dude 3y ago
It might be SEO shenanigans, trying to bump a page up in the search rankings with new activity.

by jsnell 3y ago

skepticATX 3y ago

Quora’s CEO is on OpenAI’s board.

bagasme 3y ago
I wasn't surprised then...
deleted 3y ago
[deleted]

gchamonlive 3y ago

Best way to lure VCs in their natural habitat and trap them.

zaptrem 3y ago

It’s like if StackOverflow automatically added a link to lmgtfy to every new question. If people wanted ChatGPT’s answer they’d just go to ChatGPT or Bing.

sp332 3y ago

I don't use Quora much, but this widget has been at the top of every page I think.

ok123456 3y ago
Quora never renders correctly for me. So I never click it.

bagasme 3y ago

And when Quora also shows answers from "related" (but IMO not strictly related to the original question in question) by default, I think these answers are mostly incorrect when being applied to the original question.

jacurtis 3y ago

Quora is already a dumpster fire. Everytime I go to quora from Google, I see the question at the top, but then right below it I see answers for different questions. You have to scroll past those, past a block of ads, past a sponsored answer (to another unrelated question), just to get to the answer, which itself is an confidently incorrect human that is just peddling their own website for SEO juice, and it is truncated at 2 lines, which means you need to click "read more" which spawns an additional set of ads that you need to scroll past to read lines 3 and 4 of the question. I visited a link this week and saw ChatGPT as the top result and I thought the same thing. Is Quora signaling to me that you are better off not asking our community for questions, just throw it to the AI gods and good luck. Oh and look at these 3,000 ads and take these 209 cookies before you go. Luckily I search with Kagi now, so I told it to just never give me search results with Quora in it. I'd prefer not knowing that dumpster fire of a website still exists.

sixQuarks 3y ago
I don't even ever clickthrough to Quora anymore. It's useless, you never get the answers to the question unless you login, and even then it shows only one or two answers and bombards you with other unrelated questions.
ssl232 3y ago
Agreed, there was only a narrow period a long time ago where Quora was usable and useful. It's been a domain I've skipped visiting in search results for maybe 10 years now.
- zadik 3y ago
  [flagged]
  - spacemadness 3y ago
    I guess the question then is why in the nine hells is what they’re doing profitable now? Is it more and more profitable being entirely useless and becoming more profitable? That seems insane to me.

noodlenotes 3y ago

It seems like a common occurrence for me to google some slightly obscure question and not see any directly relevant search results except a Quora link (usually the other results have my keywords but don't answer the specific question). When I click on the Quora link, I'll find that someone else has asked my exact question but there are no answers. I appreciate the ChatGPT answer because my next step would probably be ChatGPT and it saves me a few clicks. (Based on the other comment, now I wonder if I just didn't find the human answers due to bad UI.)

jsnell 3y ago
Right, a case where there are no human answers (or no good ones) is one where it at least makes local sense for Quora to put in an AI generated response. I think it is not the right solution globally, but I can see how from their perspective having bad content is better than no content. But this is them putting AI nonsense before good human answers. It can't be the right choice for any of the stakeholders.

water-data-dude 3y ago

It might be SEO shenanigans, trying to bump a page up in the search rankings with new activity.