I think taxes would be sufficient, but “we” collectively have to decide that providing such a service is part of what taxes are for
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Personally, the biggest issue with all the SE that I see right now is that they all seem to want to define “off topic” to include just about anything that can’t now be trivially answered by an LLM. And that’s been true for longer than LLMs have been able to answer “on topic” questions.
At this point, at least for me, SE et al. already have answers to most of the bits of questions I would like answered. The exceptions are the questions that boil down to things like opinions or advice. Questions that by there nature don’t have a single definitively correct answer. Or in some cases “what terms should I be searching for?”
I suspect that part of what is going on is that the people who spend a lot of time on the site are the people who get a fix out of scoring points, to the point that actually helping people is only a secondary motive, if even that. As a result the rules of the game are written by people who want those rules to help them get what they want rather than be useful to any else. Being useful is a means to a goal, not a goal itself.
Counterintuitively, that pathology might be mitigated by having LLMs answer questions so that the only questions that humans have any chance of providing value to are the ones LLMs can’t. The people who have no interest in answering nuanced questions will get frustrated an leave (sad, but oh well) and the people who want to answer the other questions (or who are willing to adapt to keep getting their hits) will become the majority.
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Am I the only one confused reading this? By 2020 the default response to questions was hostile. Maybe if you weeded out the assholes instead of encouraging them you’d still have a community.