What benefits you gained from AI

[Wildcat Media]

Or will the big players just scrape all the forum content as they have in the past?

Oh, they'll just keep on grabbing it without permissions. Honestly if I could take my forums private, I certainly would. I know it is not a good solution, but I used Cloudflare to block known AI bots.

I'm honestly so sick and tired of turning any which way in the computing world and having AI forced on me. I don't want it. I don't like it. It's all corporate greed fueling it now--the race to the top. I effing hate AI.

 

[RobinHood]

I agree every company is trying to cash in on it now, which I'm sick of seeing, especially when it seems to be just for the sake of it, but my god has it transformed my way of learning about new things.

I was so torn about the copyright thing that the beginning too, and how unfair it seemed to be that so much IP was fed into these things to train them. But a year later I'm now a convert considering the utility that I can get from it for the low cost, even if it's just for personal growth, let alone how it can help me work more efficiently and faster. As long as open source models keep progressing and local first becomes more and more achievable for maintain privacy, the next couple of years are going to be a wild ride and I'm kind of all for it.

 

[Wing]

Ngl, AI feels like a huge blow to what made the internet still have some natural human interaction and dialogue.

Feels like a nightmare thinking about what’s to come, and how fake everything in writing will be in the next 10 years.

 

[RobinHood]

Yeah, I do hate all the regurgitated content getting posted online from AI without any thought or curation as to what is being posted (both online and in internal company emails/documents), but when used personally, and I know the content is AI generated so I can disseminate and digest its contents better, it's phenomenal.

 

[Wing]

Sure it can have some personal use, yes. But everything is literally turning fake - before we know it, every article or forum post will be AI generated. And there’s no point IMO even interacting with that fake dialogue.

 

[RobinHood]

Yes, and that will come down to a moderation and rules issue within communities. A year ago I was seeing this on facebook groups and it was ruining them, but better moderation and community input helped to stop users from just copying and pasting GPT answers with zero thought.

Moderation and tools for community members need to evolve to maintain higher standards for content posted to discussion forums.

 

[Suzanne O]

Ngl, AI feels like a huge blow to what made the internet still have some natural human interaction and dialogue.

Feels like a nightmare thinking about what’s to come, and how fake everything in writing will be in the next 10 years.

It's bad on meta at the moment.

 

[drastic]

The more I've tested it, the more I'm convinced that 1) it is not true AI (like the way the search engines label their plagiarism as "AI" simply by rewriting search results with a human conversational pattern) and 2) it can't even follow simple instructions (having tried three separate image generators to give me logo ideas, where it couldn't even properly insert the three words I requested into the images). Neither of these show any actual "intelligence." Plagiarizing a handful of sites by compiling their words as natural-language results in a search has nothing to do with actual decision-making intelligence (especially when those results are often very wrong).

It's a media fixation, that's all, and it keeps the shareholders happy. I'm just ignoring it, best I can. It's a pointless buzzword at this point.

It's accelerated intelligence as in it scrapes search results and pieces it together, sometimes getting it wrong.

It's pretty stupid in that regard, and it screws over the websites that published the original content.

AI should be banned from search engines, it's doing more harm than good.

 

[MentaL]

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AI does let me make interesting things though.

 

[Suzanne O]

AI is a mess and shouldn't even be on the internet.

 

[RobinHood]

AI should be banned from search engines, it's doing more harm than good.

I'm using search engines less and less and getting far higher quality results and answers from interacting with AI directly.

 

[CedricV]

Unpopular opinion. But embrace AI instead of working against it. It’s a war you can’t win. AI is of the most popular things nowadays.

It’s like this, imagine you’re a physical shop owner. And you decide against an online store because it’s against your moral.

You will go bankrupt soon.

 

[philmckrackon]

AI creates popularity.

 

[tajhay]

For xenforo ive created a bunch of stuff using AI for my forum:

• formation builder for sports utilising php callbacks on custom bbcode
• pages that interogate database using php callbacks to present data using jscripts

I also have AI bot on my forum that users can ask questions ie create a travel iteniary for x country. Recommend some must do sites, activities, food etc

Havent had that much luck with creating a full fledged addon yet, but it has helped me fix errors on unmaintained custom addons

 

[MentaL]

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[drastic]

Unpopular opinion. But embrace AI instead of working against it. It’s a war you can’t win. AI is of the most popular things nowadays.

It’s like this, imagine you’re a physical shop owner. And you decide against an online store because it’s against your moral.

You will go bankrupt soon.

This is the most true thing you'll read all day.

The adapt or die concept is completely real.

Find ways to embrace it when necessary.

 

[drastic]

I'm using search engines less and less and getting far higher quality results and answers from interacting with AI directly.

I mentioned it mostly because, as a publisher myself, I like to support the creators, bloggers, and sources. They do this for a living, so I think there's a little bit of an ethical issue with AI scraping all the content just to repurpose it for themselves.

Except for recipe blogs filled with 9000 ads and a story you don't wanna read.

 

[StarArmy]

I've discovered that AI is good for making little animated memes for my RPG forum, where I can make an image of my character, then animate it, then turn it into a fun gif for Discord and forum use. I've posted an example above.

 

[drastic]

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I've discovered that AI is good for making little animated memes for my RPG forum, where I can make an image of my character, then animate it, then turn it into a fun gif for Discord and forum use. I've posted an example above.

that came out pretty cool!!

 

[Suzanne O]

Just wait most scammers use AI for their own phishing projects.
So no thanks