Is it always wrong to use AI to write a post?

[LittleCosette]

Is it seen as deceitful? Do most people assume it is false or trolling? I have used it before to write a story post as I have an autoimmune disease and it helped me to order my thoughts and make them cohesive.

OMG. That's exactly how I feel, and no-one seems to get it.

I honestly don't know where this will end. How will anyone ever know how intelligent or otherwise anyone is? How will university lecturers ever know of their students actually understand anything? How will employers know of the person they're about to employ actually knows the business or has the skills without turning to a bot?

And if we don't think for ourselves, we will simply end up being unable to. It's how we learn. It's like exercising. If you don't keep doing it, if you don't put the effort in, you soon won't be able to do it at all.

We're all doomed.

Yes, yes it is.

Until the AI bots learn to use that phrase as well...

I think it’s quite apparent when someone’s used it, and I’m less likely to reply if I see it’s clearly written by ChatGPT. It can’t be trusted anyway; will probably add some unnecessary utter bollocks that you hadn’t asked it to, it makes ridiculous (and obvious) mistakes, and it has a distinct style, often seeming bizarrely passive aggressive and/or superior.

Better for your post to be slightly less structured than to outsource to an AI tool that will erase your voice entirely (and possibly make you sound like somebody most people wouldn’t want to engage with in the process)!

Chillingly (to me) one of my friends in another country, has started using AI to chat to me on WhatsApp. Their normal English is perfectly reasonable, the AI chat bot, ridiculous in its inanity. It ends pretty much every sentence with an exclamation mark, and its conversation basically just takes the subject of my previous message, and responds with a meaningless and trite 'cover all' comment.

My friend is in a poor country and has only recently got internet and smartphone access. That naiveté and possibly lack of confidence has sent him to AI.
When I first asked him if it was AI he denied it. But if course it is. I told him that it didn't sound like him, and I wanted the old S back (as gently as I could).

But seriously, thinking I was having a chat with a friend and finding that it's actually a bot that he's employing, was really, really creepy, and I couldn't ignore it.

IMO yes. I'm here to read and talk to humans, not a bot.

Some posts that are walls of text or have poor grammar or spelling would benefit from being run through an AI for legibility, but when I read responses that are literally ChatGPT generated responses to an OP I think it's ridiculous and shit and I don't want to read it. I don't care what ChatGPT says about someone's post and I'm sure if the OP wanted to know what ChatGPT would reply to their post they would have asked it.

It’s just weird. Like you aren’t trying to come up with cutesy suggestions for a business name or what to name a horse. If you have something to say about your life and you can’t actually say it without AI, god help you, you probably need more assistance than MN can provide.

If you have something to say about your life and you can’t actually say it without AI, god help you, you probably need more assistance than MN can provide.

I have to agree. I'm normally a reasonably tolerant person, but I find it pathetic that people are wanting to turn to AI to even post on a chat board. It's as though people have become entirely lacking in the confidence to even say what they had for dinner last night, without turning to a machine to do it for them.

Why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write?

I think it’s wrong. I wouldn’t bother to read or reply if I knew it originated from AI or chatCPT.

100% agree. I really feel people need to stop using AI for things they're perfectly capable of doing or finding out for themselves. Surely we should be aspiring to be better versions of ourselves, not sitting back and letting bots think for us? Hang on to your autonomy, people!

AI posts are a bag of bollocks.

There’s a bit in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where Ford Prefect is counting aloud, and it says that he’s terribly worried that if humans keep outsourcing this kind of skill to computers they’ll forget how to do it themselves.

I think Douglas Adams was very prescient.

I don’t think they are dishonest but they are usually quite boring and I don’t get a sense of the person who has posted them.

I'm an academic and you can only spot poorly prompted AI. Students are uploading files and then asking it to generate a response in the style of their writing and it's impossible to detect apart from a vague feeling of 'I don't reckon that student would come out with that'. Nothing that can be proven.