How do you handle members who use AI in their posts?

[StarArmy]

I know he's using AI to make it, but it sounds like the problem is low-effort posting more than whether or not AI was used. It's important for people, whether it's in person or on a forum, to "read the room" and interact with others in a way that meets the norms of the place they're in, and obviously the AI summary stuff isn't doing that on your photography forum so it comes off as spammy. Maybe you could communicate general expectations like:

• Avoid bullet points and excessive formatting
• Use your own words to describe your photo

There's probably a lot of people out there using AI and some of it feels natural and other times it's super obvious slop and trying to draw the line somewhere to avoid to latter is tough for us admins. I am dealing with a similar situation myself where some of the AI-assisted content members are making is fantastic while other members are filling my queues with long-winded half-baked AI stuff that doesn't make sense for my forum and I'm like "did you even read this before you posted it?" There's got to be some sort of standards of quality. It's a forum for connecting members, not a personal dump site for mass-generated "content." Right?

 

[Levina]

I know he's using AI to make it, but it sounds like the problem is low-effort posting more than whether or not AI was used. It's important for people, whether it's in person or on a forum, to "read the room" and interact with others in a way that meets the norms of the place they're in, and obviously the AI summary stuff isn't doing that on your photography forum so it comes off as spammy. Maybe you could communicate general expectations like:

• Avoid bullet points and excessive formatting
• Use your own words to describe your photo

There's probably a lot of people out there using AI and some of it feels natural and other times it's super obvious slop and trying to draw the line somewhere to avoid to latter is tough for us admins. I am dealing with a similar situation myself where some of the AI-assisted content members are making is fantastic while other members are filling my queues with long-winded half-baked AI stuff that doesn't make sense for my forum and I'm like "did you even read this before you posted it?" There's got to be some sort of standards of quality. It's a forum for connecting members, not a personal dump site for mass-generated "content." Right?

I agree, it is low effort. It's lazy. It only takes a few good prompts to have AI write something that is not that obviously AI.

Anyway, I'm working on a thread for the natives now, explaining that they need to make their intros and captions dissimilar to what they post on other forums.

 

[Mr Lucky]

don't know if this is smart or not. It might drive that member from my site, which would be bad as my forum is small and he posts a lot of content every day.

I’d be up front and let him know what you are doing and why.

 

[Ricsca]

@Levina with 131 members, it's a miracle that any active users are posting in your forum, and don't worry, they're using AI.

 

[Levina]

@Levina with 131 members, it's a miracle that any active users are posting in your forum, and don't worry, they're using AI.

Well, aren't you uplifting...

My forum is just one year old but my members and I go way back and the social aspect is strong in my little community. They are not using AI, except for one of them, since recently and only to provide some background info for some of his images.

Yes, my forum is very small. It's just one year old and every forum has to start somewhere, but I still have about 40 active members daily and they post anywhere between 110 and 200 posts per day. So not so bad. My problem was Google not indexing us. I recently found the problem, made big changes to my site and now Google is fully indexing us. I am confident we can now grow.