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		coffeeshopgoth on June 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stackoverflow is investing into baking GenAI I was going to post this response, too. Yes, you can close it because it is duplicate, but god knows the huge range of how good people are at explaining something to people of various levels of understanding.

ethbr0 on June 20, 2023 [–]

After reviewing a few meta posts on it, much appears to boil down to there being poor SO UX options.

I.e. there isn't a "closed for being homework" category

Consequently, duplicate served as the go-to but inappropriate "there's something wrong with this, and I don't want to deal with it" button.

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