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Volunteer knowledge sites such as Stack Overflow and curl are facing declining traffic and more low-quality AI-generated submissions, according to an article published by ACM’s Communications of the ACM.
Why it mattersThe article says AI tools can draw on community knowledge while leaving people to shoulder the work of moderation, verification and curation. That raises a practical question for the places that keep shared technical knowledge useful: who pays for the human work behind it?
Discuss: Should AI platforms that rely on community knowledge help fund and credit those communities, or is that responsibility mainly down to the sites and their users?
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