The coming tsunami of fakery

Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by celeritascelery on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:16AM (#32594810)

I wonder if you could use GitHub Copilot to generate fake answers for SO?

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by jacooper on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:35PM (#32596207)

But what would be the point? There is no SEO to game, no people to influence etc.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by etskinner on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:39PM (#32596282)

There's plenty of influence plays there. If I worked for Cloud Provider X, I might nudge people toward using that cloud instead of a competitor. If I'm a developer of Software Y, I might say "Software Y makes this much easier" and boost sales.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by jacooper on Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:10PM (#32597667)

Maybe, but that would require an actually helpful answer, other than that no body is going to look or care about your answer.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by postsantum on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:45PM (#32601516)

Quora is plagued with these "helpful" answers

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by doubled112 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:19AM (#32594857)

Don't give them any ideas.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by optimalsolver on Thursday August 25, 2022 @08:12PM (#32601728)

Semi-related: Someone wrote a sort algorithm that searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them until it returns the correct answer.

https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

Inspired by:

http://xkcd.com/1185/

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