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    "the best place on the internet to get answers about such-and-such a topic." I'm sure advertising it as the place to get AI answers is gonna help set the right impressions and expectations for that. Commented Jan 31, 2025 at 20:51
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    "...providing information that's never been provided before." And later "distilled form which didn't exist before". Does it mean we do our own original research? Or does it mean we know how to use other databases and aggregate information accordingly? I could maybe say that a chatbot also provides information that has never been provided in that particular form before. I guess you emphasize the human capability to reason, to error check, to generate new knowledge in the process? And the main problem you see is missing awareness of SE? Commented Jan 31, 2025 at 21:27
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    @NoDataDumpNoContribution Error checking is certainly a big benefit of humans over AI, but I'm not really talking about any "main problem" in this answer, more trying to highlight the positive aspects of SE (meaning the resource/community, not the company). I suppose, yes, a chatbot could also trawl through dozens of existing pages to collate information. If you'll pardon the self-promotion, the example that comes to mind is this answer being AFAIK the first time all Rupert Bear stories from all years were listed together on a single webpage. Commented Jan 31, 2025 at 21:46
  • The amount of work that you put in the collection of that list is very admirable. Thank you. Still, with modern technology I could now ask further questions and use your collected knowledge without the need to ask you again (things like: List all Rupert Bear stories with an animal in the tile.) We are really good in knowledge creation, but serving the knowledge to the user or even somehow adapting or combining the knowledge requires additional effort. Other methods may simply be more efficient nowadays. The question is, would you be happy with an additional layer between you and the consumer? Commented Feb 1, 2025 at 17:25
  • @NoDataDumpNoContribution Another recent example of me finding info that had never been put together before - this time less of a data trawl and more of using a bit of human intuition to connect a few different pages that imprecisely mentioned 1949 BBC competitions. (AI, of course, would lack that human intuition, and even if it did reach the same result, its answer would be less reliable without a proper understanding of how it got there.) Commented Feb 4, 2025 at 12:02