A Quora spokesperson told TechCrunch Poe is “designed to be a place where people can easily interact with a number of different AI agents.” Additionally, the platform relies on user-generated content to enhance its knowledge and provide answers. The Quora spokesperson continued that their 12 years of experience running a successful Q&A website and serving people looking for knowledge will allow them to apply their learnings to a new domain.
Poe is not a rival for ChatGPT
Unlike ChatGPT, Poe allows users to have back-and-forth conversations with AI models, and it’s more like a messaging app. In the app, you’ll have access to various AI models to get a tailored answer. This includes “writing help,” “cooking,” “problem-solving,” and “nature.” Quora promised to add new AI models by allowing creators to submit their models in the app. Additionally, Quora delegates the content moderating to AI model providers without taking any responsibility for it. “The model providers have put in a lot of effort to prevent the bots from generating unsafe responses,” the spokesperson said. Poe is now a standalone project and won’t be a part of Quora anytime soon. The spokesperson didn’t clarify the incentives behind building such a platform, but offering premium Q&A features through Poe is a plausible option for Quora. Putting all excitement around AI chatbots aside, they’ve become quite controversial for their biased and racist content. Some experts are even concerned that ChatGPT could be used for spreading malicious code. That’s why Q&A coding website Stack Overflow banned users from sharing content generated by ChatGPT, arguing that the users might flood the website with dubious answers. AI chatbots are also accused of copyright infringement. A programmer has recently sued GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI over this. This was for allowing Copilot AI coding assistant to use sections of a licensed code without permission.
