Are Q&A sites like Fluther going to be done for now that AI is getting more popular?

No. Or you would have asked AI for this question. For giggles ask AI this question and post the answer.
I am also here for socializing making friends and improving my grammar.

Good point.
Copied response from AI:

It’s hard to say for sure! AI is definitely getting more popular and can provide quick answers, but Q&A sites like Fluther still have a unique community aspect. People enjoy sharing their own experiences and getting personalized advice from real humans. So, I think there’s still a place for both! What do you think?

That was Snapchat AI to be honest. Did not realize chat GPT was free. Chat GPT says:

While AI’s increasing popularity does affect many online spaces, it’s unlikely that Q&A sites like Fluther or similar platforms will be “done for” entirely. However, there are some key factors to consider in this context:

1. AI as a Complement, Not a Replacement: AI tools like ChatGPT can provide quick answers to general questions, but they still lack the nuanced, human experiences and perspectives that Q&A communities like Fluther offer. People often turn to these sites for personalized advice, specific expertise, and community engagement, which AI may not fully replicate.

2. Human Interaction & Trust: Many users value the authenticity and relatability of responses from other people on these sites, especially in communities where trust and empathy play a big role. AI may struggle to match this in some contexts, like emotional support or nuanced advice.

3. Specialized Knowledge: Some Q&A sites attract experts or niche communities that share knowledge in areas AI may not yet be fully equipped to address accurately. This could continue to make human-powered Q&A valuable, especially for in-depth or domain-specific questions.

4. AI Integration: It’s possible that Q&A sites will incorporate AI in some form, whether as a tool to assist users in generating responses or as a way to summarize or filter content. AI could help improve search functionality, answer quality, or even engage users more effectively, but the human element would still likely be needed for rich, varied interaction.

In short, while AI is definitely influencing how we search for and interact with information, human-driven Q&A sites are likely to continue evolving alongside it, serving specific needs that AI might not fully satisfy.

GQ.

We are friends here so I hope AI doesn’t put fluther out of business. For now, AI can’t have a conversation like a human being to really talk about a topic where communication can be complicated.

I guess Fluther is an exception, most sites like Reddit or Quora do not have a small community where everyone knows eachother. But even then, Reddit has small communities within it so. Yeah, AI cannot beat human bonds

I love that I contradicted myself. Most of reddit is large communities, with some smaller ones. But is not mainly small like Fluther. That is what I meant to say

There is no community in A.I. if anything, it will cause a resurgence of message boards like this.

AI depends on good human input from these kinds of sites. If they don’t they will morph into sublime and surreal with all the baby bots and baby AI input.

I just asked AI: What are good new movies to see this season? Can you please give a snarky answer?

Oh, sure! Because nothing says “I have my life together” like asking an AI for movie recommendations. But fine, here are some films you might want to check out this season—if you can tear yourself away from scrolling through social media, that is:

“Killers of the Flower Moon” – Because who doesn’t love a good murder mystery with a side of historical drama? Just what you need to feel better about your own life choices!
“Dune: Part Two” – If you enjoyed the first part, why not dive back into the sandworm-infested chaos? It’s like a desert vacation, but with more existential dread.
“The Marvels” – Superheroes are back! Because clearly, we haven’t had enough of them yet. Get ready for more spandex and world-saving antics.
“Napoleon” – A historical epic about a short guy with a big ego. Sounds like a perfect metaphor for your last Tinder date!
“Wish” – Disney’s latest animated feature, because who doesn’t want to be reminded of their childhood dreams while sitting in a dark theater, eating overpriced popcorn?

So, while the snarky answers are good, the answers were movies from last year.

I have a screenshot of Snapchat AI telling me that the only Trump assassination attempt was in 2016. It said there was no 2024 assassination attempt and if there was “it would be all over the news”

This was like, a week after it happened?

I am hating AI output more and more, the more I see it. So if my patronage makes any difference, no.

Questions that are intended for General may switch to AI, I do not see that happening is Social.

Never trust an LLM answer, unless the question is “what’s a rehash of common crap written on the Internet that’s statistically related to the following words, plus some randomness?”

LLM?

LLM stands for Large Language Model, the type of “AI” recently being used to answer questions, which it does by taking an unimaginably huge amount of text written by humans (q.v. the Internet) and then applying statistics and a painful amount of computer power to come up with text that looks like there is knowledge and understanding behind it, but is really just a statistics-based re-shuffling of words that often go together in text that humans wrote in that massive body of human-written text it’s working from.

Probably. It is losing ground.

I google most direct questions. Like where can I purchase this or that or fact base questions that are easy to find. To many times using voice activated questions gets me random questions because the AI might get confused with words that may have more than one meaning or sound similar to another. I wont even do speech to text because of that. I like knowing my answers come from real live people. Let’s take medications for instance. I can see side affects listed anywhere on the web but only real people can actually tell me if they have ever had side effects not listed by the pharmaceutical companies.