The downfall was long before ChatGPT (personally, I’d burnt out answering the same questions again and again) https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#g...
The stackoverflow was better than what was before it (*sexchange site). Time will tell how it compares to the AI slop of the dead internet (current generation of LLMs based on human-generated data are great. Let’s see what happens when most of the data is created by bots).