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CruCru · 2026-02-13T18:12:22+00:00

I keep seeing posts written by Chat GPT on various threads. Sometimes the poster says something along the lines of “I got AI to summarise what I wanted to say and here it is” and sometimes they post with no reference to AI (but it is fairly obvious). Please can this stop? This site will become unusable if the posts get written by robots. MN is populated by articulate, well educated women; we don’t need to use AI to communicate with each other. It isn’t allowed in school. I suggest that obvious AI posts should be reported for deletion.

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CruCru · 15/03/2026 22:25

I think that might just be a facet of humanity. It’s often irritating but it isn’t as bad as getting complete responses written by robots.

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ThatPearlkitty · 15/03/2026 20:11

CruCru · 15/03/2026 19:53

Does it matter very much if you get a few half answered responses? I remember a thread where the OP was choosing a school and said she wanted to only hear from posters who had had children at both schools so she could compare and contrast.

She wasn’t enormously impressed when I said that this would mean she would only hear from people who had been unhappy with school A and moved them to school B (or vice versa). A few people told her their experience of school A / B but said they had no first hand experience of the other. These responses still had value, even if they weren’t the full responses sought.

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in that context then yes i agree, but in other treads someones eg asking about cats and someone talks about dogs etc so in that sense etc

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CruCru · 15/03/2026 19:53

ThatPearlkitty · 15/03/2026 19:20

before ai you still had half answered responses or people derailing etc thats not new at least with ai at times it does answer the ops question

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Does it matter very much if you get a few half answered responses? I remember a thread where the OP was choosing a school and said she wanted to only hear from posters who had had children at both schools so she could compare and contrast.

She wasn’t enormously impressed when I said that this would mean she would only hear from people who had been unhappy with school A and moved them to school B (or vice versa). A few people told her their experience of school A / B but said they had no first hand experience of the other. These responses still had value, even if they weren’t the full responses sought.

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ThatPearlkitty · 15/03/2026 19:20

ShawnaMacallister · 15/03/2026 08:00

I do that! But that's not what I come to mumsnet for. I love my ChatGPT and I use it a lot. But I don't want to read someone else's ChatGPT generated post. So many people are doing that now and denying it when called out. It's absolutely going to wreck the site but mumsnet don't seem to care.

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before ai you still had half answered responses or people derailing etc thats not new at least with ai at times it does answer the ops question

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CruCru · 15/03/2026 08:53

No, possibly not. Perhaps it will make it easier to report AI posts if the OP has explicitly said they don’t want them.

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EmpressaurusKitty · 15/03/2026 08:01

CruCru · 13/03/2026 21:07

There’s a thread under chat where the OP has put in brackets in the title (no thank you, AI). Maybe if AI is unwelcome, this is what we should all do. But it would get rather clunky.

I don’t think it will make any difference though.

There have been a couple of very similar threads about multi-functional clothes (going straight from work to a wedding, that sort of thing) that came across as AI generated. HQ deleted the first one but the second one developed into a lovely collection of cat photos & the OP didn’t come back.

I’d be fascinated to see what titles it came up with for some of the more outlandish threads.

ShawnaMacallister · 15/03/2026 08:00

daisychain01 · 15/03/2026 07:52

Why would anyone bother posting their dilemma on mumsnet when they get the same quality of response from their ChatGPT app?

I bet a lot of people are already using AI for advice because it doesn't flame them.

someone has created a thread where the OP is so obviously AI generated, but they've actually denied it. That I find annoying. If you've used AI at least own it!

I do that! But that's not what I come to mumsnet for. I love my ChatGPT and I use it a lot. But I don't want to read someone else's ChatGPT generated post. So many people are doing that now and denying it when called out. It's absolutely going to wreck the site but mumsnet don't seem to care.

PollyBell · 15/03/2026 07:58

Are these the ones with one deliberate spelling mistake?

daisychain01 · 15/03/2026 07:52

Why would anyone bother posting their dilemma on mumsnet when they get the same quality of response from their ChatGPT app?

I bet a lot of people are already using AI for advice because it doesn't flame them.

someone has created a thread where the OP is so obviously AI generated, but they've actually denied it. That I find annoying. If you've used AI at least own it!

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CruCru · 14/03/2026 21:38

Oh God. This was something I hadn’t seen (it’s been a while since I started a thread - maybe this is the last one I did).

Can posters not choose their own thread titles? I can’t imagine anyone is dithering over what to put as the subject before they post.

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CrowsBuildingNests · 14/03/2026 19:25

I just experimented with the AI thread title feature. (Didn’t post it, obvs.)

It turned a very specific, informed element of an academic subject into ‘Would anyone like to discuss aspects of [general thing]’.

It was as though I’d asked about Fermat’s Theorem and got ‘Anyone else interested in sums?’

Ffs.

ShawnaMacallister · 14/03/2026 17:54

I've just read a thread where the title is AI generated (bland, descriptive) and the OP and her follow up are also AI generated. I'm not saying she's fake at all, but by explicitly encouraging the use of AI on mumsnet with this ridiculous new suggested title feature the powers that be are making the site far more bland and boring. This really will kill mumsnet and I cannot believe they are so out of touch with the reasons people use the site as to not notice. Bringing AI into thread creation smacks of people panicking that AI is coming and feeling they need to 'get on board' and bring it in somehow when they really need to take a stand against it. I am sad to see it, but mumsnet is going to die a death if AI is allowed and encouraged the way it is now. Why would anyone bother posting their dilemma on mumsnet when they get the same quality of response from their ChatGPT app?

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CruCru · 13/03/2026 21:07

There’s a thread under chat where the OP has put in brackets in the title (no thank you, AI). Maybe if AI is unwelcome, this is what we should all do. But it would get rather clunky.

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NoraLuka · 09/03/2026 12:54

I’d rather read a post with SPAG mistakes than anything written by AI tbh. Maybe the time will come when spelling mistakes in posts become desirable because they prove a human did the writing!

I’ve already more or less abandoned Facebook because of the sheer deluge of AI shite, and will do the same for any other platform that goes the same way.

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CruCru · 09/03/2026 12:49

Hedgesandbutterflies · 09/03/2026 12:11

I actually don't think the jealous of Dubai was AI. Just a person it didn't work out for and now claimed authority on how it is for everyone and bwst knowledge of the place

You may be right. I’m not sure that I want to go back onto it though.

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Hedgesandbutterflies · 09/03/2026 12:11

I actually don't think the jealous of Dubai was AI. Just a person it didn't work out for and now claimed authority on how it is for everyone and bwst knowledge of the place

CrowsBuildingNests · 09/03/2026 11:05

CruCru · 06/03/2026 17:29

It’s the one about not being jealous of influencers in Dubai.

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I deleted that as soon as I saw it on the grounds that it’s tedious clickbait, tantamount to Isabel Oakeshott pissing about with AI.

SugarPuffSandwiches · 09/03/2026 10:56

CruCru · 24/02/2026 17:17

One of the things that makes MN attractive (to me) is that it is populated by women who are able to write well. I don’t much like it when people jump all over someone getting there / they’re / they’re wrong … but if a post is really badly written then I’ll just skip over it. I don’t think I’m alone - it’s part of the reason that OPs that are a wall of text don’t get many responses.

Posts written by Chat GPT don’t have the sort of SPAG errors that people jump on. But in many ways they are much worse - they’re boring, like the AI chatbot on a banking website. If people start using Chat GPT to write their posts, it won’t be worth using MN.

I completely agree with this.
I'm noticing the use of what must be ChatGPT or some kind of AI tool on FB business pages more and more - they're all churning out the exact same type of stuff, and just sound like they're parroting each other.
It's so off-putting. It's like nobody has an original thought in their heads anymore.
I haven't really seen it on MN yet, and hope I don't.

Everybodys · 09/03/2026 09:28

Hedgesandbutterflies · 03/03/2026 12:56

Linkedin is basically chatgpt talking to chatgpt now.
We don't want mn to become that

This. The chat GPT posts are almost invariably boring and shit.

ThatPearlkitty · 06/03/2026 17:33

CruCru · 06/03/2026 17:29

It’s the one about not being jealous of influencers in Dubai.

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much appricated

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CruCru · 06/03/2026 17:29

ThatPearlkitty · 06/03/2026 17:26

whats the thread please

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It’s the one about not being jealous of influencers in Dubai.

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ThatPearlkitty · 06/03/2026 17:26

CruCru · 06/03/2026 17:25

There’s a thread that has been trending for some of today. I am pretty sure that the OP was written with the help of AI - and a bunch of the subsequent posts by the OP accuse those who don’t agree with them of being “ignorant” (those have now been deleted).

whats the thread please

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CruCru · 06/03/2026 17:25

There’s a thread that has been trending for some of today. I am pretty sure that the OP was written with the help of AI - and a bunch of the subsequent posts by the OP accuse those who don’t agree with them of being “ignorant” (those have now been deleted).

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AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf · 06/03/2026 12:07

Yes to using it as a tool to help you organise/coherently express your own thoughts; No to sitting back and just giving it free rein to say whatever it guesses you might want to say.

I never understand the people who say "Hi OP, I asked ChatGPT and it said this...". It's not like the OP couldn't have easily done that for themselves if they'd wanted to; but they specifically came on to a human site to interact with other humans. Sometimes you get responses where people say "You could have just Googled this for an answer" - but of course, the OP didn't just want a black and white factual bot response without any nuance, opinion or other human consideration involved, hence posting on MN!

CrowsBuildingNests · 06/03/2026 11:54

ThatPearlkitty · 06/03/2026 10:44

what is mumsnet guidelines on people using it ?

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It’s the old ‘case-by-case basis’ position, last I looked.

I’m spending less and less time on MN, writing far fewer posts, and being more selective in terms of boards I’m on.

I’m also hiding/deleting a lot more threads immediately on reading their titles in ‘Active’ when they’re suggestive of being (a) AI slop, (b) about a person whose name has been misspelled with a fake human ditziness, (c) poorly written in the Facebook style, (d) political clickbait, and/or (e) a combination of any of the above.