The irony of stackoverflow banning ChatGPT answers because of "quality" concerns ...

The ChatGPT answers are only noticiable because they are higher quality grammar that the human generated low quality content, which has not been a concern for over a decade. I think ChatGPT bots answering questions with the API do not get served ads is the actual problem.

I was once in the top 0.05% of the users in the Java tag and top 1% of the users overall with a very low number account from about 8 months after stackoverflow launched.

I requested my account be disconnected from all my content and deleted my account around 2017/2018 because my highly upvoted and more importantly CORRECT answers were being modified to be incorrect by people just gaming the system for points for editing posts and the management made it specifically clear that this was not a concern for them.

I and a vocal minority of OG users had been complaining about the lack of concern for quality and the focus on quantity for about 4 years already. When they changed the tag line from "quality answers" to focus on "quantity" of questions and answers.

There was a slow by perceptible mass quitting over about 18 months and the site quality rapidly reached what it is now, because all the members with enough reputation points to actually moderate the site for free either refused to do it anymore or did like I did.

I took my volunteer time and applied it to another community that respected my efforts and time, and did not risk compromising my professional reputation.

That they now are banning answers that are only delectable as ChatGPT because they are grammatically correct and arguably higher quality in that sense is laughable.