Do you tolerate AI content on your forum?

[AjayJunkies]

AI content is becoming popular the more that AI advances and I have noticed that some tend to use AI content within their threads and posts in forums.

What are your thoughts about the use of AI content on your forums? Do you tolerate it?

 

[Suzanne O]

Never. AI is a load of crap to be honest with you.

 

[Old Nick]

It makes me desperate, and I have the impression that I won't be able to have an active community before AI invades the forums and, more broadly, the various contents on the web. In France there are already very serious online newspapers (in addition to the paper version) which already use AI to summarize the comments of subscribers to their articles! That is to say that instead of browsing/reading dozens of comments from subscribers you have a small box which summarizes the overall feeling... Despairing!

 

[FTL]

It depends. If it's a well written, informative post that's on topic, I might leave it up. If it reads like a generic spam reply, then I'll delete it for sure.

It would be funny to get several bots all registering on my forum and talking to each other lol. Would likely be creepy af.

 

[frm]

At times, some of my human-written content is picked up by AI detectors as having some probability of being written by AI (less than 30%), if I take the time to focus on style, tone, audience, etc.

I don't think we can rely on detectors to tell us the full truth. Only the AI that generated it knows whether it's AI or not.

If you got one of the top English writers here to write one paragraph about the best dog food, I would almost guarantee that it would be picked up as written by AI with some probability, if not all.

That said, I don't know how Google is going to handle AI content when it comes to forums. Is it just going to scan it for correctness and ignore that it wasn't written by a human? That seems the most logical. Serve up the most correct and most concise content a user is looking for.

 

[eDaddi]

There are already a ton of AI detectors out there. HR departments are deploying them to weed out applicants as disingenuous.

Google ones unique content. Your members pattern of speech and way of talking are going to be even more unique. I’m going to do everything in my power to prevent AI on my forums

 

[Old Nick]

It depends. If it's a well written, informative post that's on topic, I might leave it up

This is to lose all the interest of the forums, an AI is rarely wrong and therefore the answer to a question asked has a good chance of getting everyone to agree. And so the thread stops, in most cases. This is no longer an answer but a search result... On an active forum even if you ask the question how much is 2+2 then you can have a 3 page long thread! AI, if we let it happen on the forums then they no longer have any reason to exist.

 

[Mr Lucky]

an AI is rarely wrong

We didn’t find this to be the case when we tried the ChatGPT addon. Had it got more answers correct we may have continued with the addon but no.

 

[BassMan]

AI content is becoming popular the more that AI advances and I have noticed that some tend to use AI content within their threads and posts in forums.

What are your thoughts about the use of AI content on your forums? Do you tolerate it?

No, I don't like it. We tried the AI add-on, but soon retired it. Too many wrong answers and I think this can “kill” the forum eventually. We don't need AI on forums, we need human interactions, discussions etc.

Noticing many spammers with AI content lately. There are some good tools online to check if the text is AI generated. We ban such users from all of our forums.

 

[Miri]

Google Translate is also an AI, but for me it is very useful like now in this post that I am translating it directly from the keyboard.



The important thing is not to be ridiculous and talk like an AI, but if it helps you do things and offer content 'yes' generated with AI but with a great deal of human research and dedication behind the scenes.

I don't like to see AI chats in a forum, in the sense that the user talks to an AI. This content doesn't interest me to read. But if a post has original content even if it's written with AI I can read it without asking myself too many questions about the writing.

On the other hand, any publishing house uses AI to generate content, but surely (the serious ones) will make revisions to adapt it to their language.

 

[Mr Lucky]

but if it helps you do things and offer content 'yes' generated with AI but with a great deal of human research and dedication behind the scenes.

That sentence doesn't look like AI translated as it appears to contain slightly incorrect grammar.

 

[Seeker-Smith]

I have several members doing A.I. images. Its pretty outstanding work. I have no problem with it at all.

 

[Old Nick]

I'm not sure that, for the moment, the problem comes from images generated by IA...

 

[smallwheels]

an AI is rarely wrong

The opposite is true. And the belief that an AI would rarely be wrong is one of the things that make them dangerous. It is a classical "sh*t in - sh*t out" scenario and because AIs are - opposite to their name - everything but intelligent they often produce ridiculously grotesque answers and statements - that still may sound plausible.

 

[Old Nick]

It's not wrong, it all depends on the subject, we can have quite evasive or even false answers and it often depends on the prompts used, which is why the AIs integrated into forums offer random answers because members talk like the humans they are and do not post prompts intended for an AI. When I said that AIs are rarely wrong, it's when you use chatGPT, for example, and converse with it, at the end of the discussion, the truth is often there.

 

[CedricV]

ChatGPT is my best new online friend. Yay!

 

[Mendalla]

We suspect a recently returned member (he was on a permaban but we allowed his latest appeal) is using AI to compose at least some of his posts. They are very different from his old posting style and very stiff and formal for forum posts. On the upside, he's largely avoiding the behaviour that got him banned so we'll probably cut him some slack on the AI-ish posts.

 

[80sDude]

I love ChatGPT. I only use it when I want historical articles that are 1000 words or more but I used it to generate most of my images for all my articles.

 

[smallwheels]

When I said that AIs are rarely wrong, it's when you use chatGPT, for example, and converse with it, at the end of the discussion, the truth is often there.

The problem with forums (at least many if not most of them) has been traditionally that they do have some gems of information, but they are covered with tons of mud and false information. Many forums are a gigantic echo chamber, full of beliefs, wrong factual statements and endless rumors. Which is why they mostly are not considered as a reliable source. And that was before AI came into play. A human who is experienced with the topic is able to find the gems, though it is a lot of dirty work. But if you train an AI with forum data I would expect it to reproduce all the bullsh*t of the forum very elegantly.

Independent from forums I did a test with chatGPT already a while ago with facts about a topic that I am knowlegable about. Facts that are a bit complex to research and aggregate but there is a clear true and a clear false. It turned out chatGPT got the right answer within seconds - but only in about 60% of the cases. In the other 40% it claimed utter bullsh*t - clearly false facts and numbers - but only reconizable if you already are an expert in the topic it was talking about. So it is really dangerous as many people beliefe what the AI says.

 

[Mendalla]

Yeah, I think there's a difference between using AI as a research tool (still highly dicey per above) and using it as a writing tool to refine your writing, including posts. Edge now keeps bugging me to use CoPilot to edit my posts and I tried a couple times. Results were fine but no better than what I was writing and too formal for a forum post. Fortunately, I only use Edge at work though I wonder how long before Chrome starts incorporating Gemini in a similar fashion.