To dislike chtgpt/AI being used on Mumsnet.

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Is anyone else getting bored of the proliferation of threads and posts that have being assisted by AI? Posts with reams of bullet points and carefully crafted arguments. We used to have the odd poster who could write like this...and be bothered to but now I see it in every thread multiple times.

Is it time to embrace AI or move over to Gransnet?

I agree, it's just such a lot of dross when people generally come to MN to interact with other people.

I scroll past the long AI lists. Can't be at arsed with them at all.

It used to be bad etiquette to write long posts. I just tried to mention it on a thread and the poster replied that "people are just intelligent".

Have our brains suddenly become super-sophisticated in the last 1/2 years!

I admit i do like a well spaced out post, and always do mine like that, i can't deal with the walls of text some write

Agree with pp that I'm on here to interact with others 🙈 so can't stand a bot

Yanbu

YANBU but at least you can spot it! Keep scrolling, scrolling...

What's even more irritating is the Reddit style M35, F21, etc etc. The Americanisation is irritating on a predominantly UK based site ( not that I'm anti American, far from it).

Oh no, not 'carefully crafted arguments'?

No, what this place needs is more screaming at people.

Who said anything about 'screaming'?

I just don't want to have a discussion with someone who has punched in a bunch of points that is then reworked and spat out into 12 paragraphs of AI speak.

Would anyone be up for asking Mumsnet for a Sub which cannot be aided by AI? Suspected posts could be zapped quickly.

Maybe a word count should be added to each post?...just me then.

Where are you seeing these? How are you identifying them?

I think the rise of AI will see the decline of real intelligence happen very quickly.

I absolutely despise it but unfortunately have about 30 years of work ahead of me, so no doubt I will have to get used to it.

It is the length of the post, the impeccable grammar, the speed of well-formulated replies etc.

This is a new thing, people haven't suddenly become brighter/enlightened.

By making these really long AI posts the posters' messages are lost. I just skim over them. Might start calling them out but doubt would achieve owt.

They're really obvious. Overly long and utter nonsense. Weird tone and punctuation. There seems to be a lot of old threads bumped by AI generated posts that are only vaguely relevant to the thread.

Eg 2 year old 'I want to book a holiday like this' thread, bumped by a very general discussion that compares self catering vs all inclusive or similar.

Ah OK. They're probably not threads I'm on then. Is it against guidelines to comment to warn/highlight this for other posters?

Why?

I flag them as 'Not a genuine poster' when I see them. But generally I just skim read and close, as I've no interest in talking to an AI chat.

They are extremely tedious to read. Over-verbose. Often repetitive. IDK why people use it, it takes as long to tell an AI what you want to say as it does to just type a post on here! Longer, because you've got to open an AI chat window, ask it the thing, reiterate until it gives you something half-decent, then copy it and paste it into MN. What a waste of time when you could just say what you mean directly on MN.

It's a bit insulting to those of us that take the time to write carefully-crafted arguments and try not to make grammatical errors!

I just scroll past these posts, haven’t seen that many but if there were loads of them it wouldn’t be worth using MN anymore. I’ve already mostly given up on FB because of the AI posts. Instagram doesn’t seem affected, not sure why that is. Surely in theory there’s a point when the amount of AI content means it would just be feeding on itself?

I agree with you OP. I get that some posters might want help from AI but I don't want to read AI generated posts.

It always seems like a tell when the post is entirely in the third person; unless you specifically tell it to the AI won't write "I think [x]", it'll write "Many people think [x]". I don't understand why people use ChatGPT etc to write forum posts, reviews of things etc: I want to read your opinions of things, not what the computer has summarised as popular opinions from searching the web. If you can't be bothered to actually write a post yourself, why are you here? Like what's even the purpose of writing a prompt for AI then copying and pasting it in?

I was thinking exactly that! I am sure I must have used bullet points on here occasionally, I do like a nicely laid out set of bullet points.

Seriously, it has never occurred to me. I have never used one of these or encountered their output much, as far as I am aware, so must be bad at spotting them.

Just a thought, could people be using them because they just lack confidence in their ability to say what they want to say coherently and grammatically and fear they will be be ridiculed for it on mumsnet.

I am sure your posts are not like an AI bot but soon they will be indistinguishable and that is an issue.