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AI Is Causing Signal Collapse Everywhere All at Once (thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
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AI can cheaply fake almost every signal we traditionally used to judge quality. I now see this pattern everywhere, in open source, in education, in research, all breaking at the same time. I find signaling theory useful for diagnosing what is happening and why it is so disorienting, and signaling theory and adjacent literature can provide the vocabulary to discuss possible solutions.

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[–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

That said, unlike answers from an LLM, SO answers are available for public review and scrutiny (for better or worse) which can filter out unhelpful answers.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago

    If there can be a lot of benefit from a public LLM Q&A forum (where you ask LLMs questions but everything is public), then I'm sure somebody would build it. Maybe somebody is building it now. So what your talking about is not an issue with LLMs, but rather the current toolset for using them.

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