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by tsunamifury 947 days ago
Except it makes obvious sense if you know anything about the technology and the training system quora potentially could become.
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> the training system quora potentially could become

That ship sailed years ago. I was a Quora "Top Writer" for a few years in a row until I quit. I stopped using Quora because they did a complete 180 and stopped their writers program (read: the people answering questions) and instead started programs to incentivize people to ask questions. Almost overnight, people were algorithmically creating questions like "What is 23 times 154?" and spamming low-value questions that are trivially google-able.

In the last year, answers are obviously AI generated (perhaps ironically, most by ChatGPT). All in all, the damage is mostly done. Quora has sunk to a level that even Yahoo Answers did not sink to in terms of spammy questions, spammy/bad/incorrect/low-value answers, and a practically unusable UI.

Quora went from being pretty interesting early on to still having some gems in a sea of mostly dross to just meh.
Surely the OpenAI developers know how to append `?shared=1` to Quora URLs.
I never use quora so I personally just found out from your comment[1] that you can bypass login. Helpful if I need Quora.

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[1] It encouraged me to google it: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/213726/adding-share...