> We observe no change in the votes posts receive on Stack Overflow since the release of ChatGPT. This finding suggests that ChatGPT is displacing a wide variety of Stack Overflow posts, including high-quality content.
My alternative hypothesis: ChatGPT is eliminating all the long-tail, garbage questions, so the vote patterns don't change because the missing questions weren't getting much of them anyway.
My alternative hypothesis: ChatGPT is eliminating all the long-tail, garbage questions, so the vote patterns don't change because the missing questions weren't getting much of them anyway.