TL;DR What if Stack Exchange utilized an LLM integration to add ONE standard answer for questions with low activity, while encouraging the community to review said answers?
It could help revitalize the platform -- or at least make it more useful until the Singularity & inevitable subsequent AI Uprising!
Though I haven't followed the LLM-related drama too closely, I'm aware that it's been a hot (perhaps volatile?) topic on Meta and on Stack Overflow, and for good reason.
I am NOT a proponent of the widely popular AI-to-All-the-Things mentality pervading the Interwebs these days. I do use LLMs frequently to get quick, plausible feedback on sticky issues in order to (hopefully) point me in the right general direction. But I also know from painful experience to always assume there's a flaw in the response if not an outright lie.
This is a core reason I still trust and appreciate Stack Overflow. While I can get quick answers either from SO, or from GPT et al, with SO I can often gauge accuracy to a much higher degree of confidence thanks to the variety of answers and the feedback on those answers.
Unfortunately not every question on SO has a viable answer, either. And a significant portion are, if not severely outdated, then at least no longer considered best practice.
Would it be worthwhile for Stack Exchange to introduce a dedicated LLM integration with one of the major providers to suggest an additional answer (at least for questions with low response count or activity)?
This would NOT be yet-another LLM chatbot. I'm talking about a feature that generates and attaches a single answer in the same way any user would -- *though clearly designated as an "official" LLM-generated response. And it would be (presumably) the SOLE exception to the ban on LLM-generated answers.
The intriguing aspect of this to me is not merely having a potential answer for every question -- but that those answers can then be properly reviewed and vetted by the venerable SO community using the tried-and-true SO formula we all know.
I'd even wager that a few SO veterans (a category which I'd very generously allow myself to hover on the edges of) would feel just PO'd enough to drift on over and put the high & mighty LLM in its place with informed rebuttals, further strengthening the quality of the platform for everyone involved.
I am NOT shouting "This is a good idea!"
But if this were implemented, I do have the sense that I'd find even more value in posting my questions here knowing not only that an answer would always be provided, but also that the generated answer would be subjected to the community's keen and critical eye (unlike on ChatAnthroGemAI).