2026-04-24 11:35 UTC
Quality matters to AskHistorians readers. It also matters a *lot* to the historians who answer those questions and who moderate. So the subreddit has banned AI. That's for good reason:
We found 👏 the more someone thinks AI is being used, the lower they rate the community on information quality.👏
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@natematias@social.coop 2026-04-24 11:37
The most interesting finding from our survey with AskHistorians is the relationship between someone's sense of belonging and a sense of AI use. 👏The more someone thinks AI is being used in the community, the lower they rank their sense of belonging.👏 This may help explain how AI contributes to community collapse. (note: it's a correlation)