[noodlenotes]

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]

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.