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I see the chain of reasoning, but it also seems quite logical that quality answers written by real humans should be a pretty big competitive advantage. Throwing away your biggest sales point just because the competition has something new is a business suicide.

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Indeed it is business suicide. I posted this before on another discussion, but this seems to be a common trend [1]:

> Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

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