AI can cheaply fake almost every signal we traditionally used to judge quality. I now see this pattern everywhere, in open source, in education, in research, all breaking at the same time. I find signaling theory useful for diagnosing what is happening and why it is so disorienting, and signaling theory and adjacent literature can provide the vocabulary to discuss possible solutions.



If there can be a lot of benefit from a public LLM Q&A forum (where you ask LLMs questions but everything is public), then I’m sure somebody would build it. Maybe somebody is building it now. So what your talking about is not an issue with LLMs, but rather the current toolset for using them.