To want to tell posters who say "I asked ChatGPT for you OP"......

[RudePie]

To fuck right off.

I've seen it on numerous threads today.

If I start a thread, or reply to someone I want to hear from real humans.

If I wanted to ask ChatGPT I don't then I would do that.

Maybe anyone who replies with "I asked ChatGPT for you and they said....." could have an instant ban and/or a fine.

YANBU OP, and the issue is that Chat GPT can be wrong about so much- I mentioned to my husband that I can't give blood having received a blood transfusion, and that I imagine at some point they will have to change that given some local blood shortages, he consulted Chat GPT which reliably informed him that I could indeed give blood.......the NHS blood donor website says I can't, so he put this to Chat GPT which essentially replied "oh yeah my bad I got it wrong"

It also told him he couldn't give blood due to a specific medication he's on, he mentioned this during his appointment and was told that given the dosage he was using and the fact it was topical that he most definitely could give blood.....and then when he put this into Chat GPT it once again let him know "my bad" 🙄

Hey, OP, I asked ChatGPT for you, and I get the frustration, but this feels like a massive overreaction.
People aren’t outsourcing their opinions to avoid being human — they’re often using tools to help explain something clearly or quickly, especially on technical or niche topics. The human part is still deciding to help, choosing what to share, and engaging in the discussion.
If a reply is wrong, low-effort, or unhelpful, downvote it or challenge it like any other post. Banning people for mentioning how they arrived at an answer is just gatekeeping for the sake of it.
You’re still talking to real humans — some of them just use better tools than others.

(Said ironically btw as I am inclined to agree and am fed up with lazy use of AI)

And do you pass a cleaners work off as your own ?

Hmmm. There are some things people all on here and on other forums ask, which could simply be googled.

I agree, but I think that's what the OP is getting at. We can all use Google and ChatGPT, but people post on MN because they want to hear from humans, and get nuanced opinions. So people saying "I googled it" or "I asked ChatGPT" aren't really adding to the discussion.

Bit of a stretch calling posts on Mumsnet 'work' as if they're books or research papers or something.

Some things don't need a discussion though. I'm part of a FB group that bans questions where Google has the answer.

I saw a recent thread asking for ideas to cook something for guests. You can get so many ideas online. It doesn't warrant a thread IMO.

I don’t trust it for similar reasons. It just agrees with everything you suggest, however outrageous.

I think this thread is quite mean spirited. As with all posts, generally people are only trying to help. They don’t need to be sworn at for trying.

But people post on MN precisely because it's a different channel to impersonal Google and they want to talk about cooking for guests with other humans as opposed to a computer 🤷‍♂️

I agree.

Agree

I'm a massive fan of ChatGPT but I think generating a ChatGPT answer and posting it on mumsnet is bloody annoying and people should stop. I don't want to read what ChatGPT thinks about the issue, if I did I would ask it.

It's not helpful to ask an AI and post the response. Sorry, it's just not. If the OP wanted to do that they could do it themselves. People come on mumsnet for conversation with humans, not AI.

Early doors? Like 2/3 years ago? It's evolved enormously since then!

I’ve just run an experiment. I’m writing an academic paper and I asked it ten related questions.

100% of the answers were wrong. Not just ‘I disagree with that opinion’ wrong - actually factually wrong. Up at the level of ‘your bridge will fall down’ wrong.

YANBU.

If I wanted to be reading LLM slop, I wouldn't be consulting Mumsnet. I value this place for its wisdom and wit and sometimes downright batshittery.

AI;DR is the new TL:DR.

No, it's more like buying a prefab identikit home, then adding a cushion or two and thinking you now have a creative and unique interior.

Have you considered that people want and value human connection and that is why they ask other humans for input? They don't want to Google recipes they want to hear what other people like them enjoyed cooking, or what their guests rated, or tips, or reassurance they haven't taken on too much.

Or maybe they're posting as a way of connecting with others and their question is just a way to achieve that.

I think scolding the op is quite mean spirited.

No, early doors for me trying it, which was more recently.

Also, and I know this isn't ChatGPT, but it's still AI, one of the "helpful" AI comments at the bottom of a Facebook post last week earnestly told me that while Haggis are real wild animals, they cannot be trained to do the bobsleigh and had not competed in the winter Olympics.

People responding with what Chatgpt has told them, is human interaction on the thread. The answers Chatgpt gives are based on human input in the first place.

It's only because people even say it's chatgpt, that the OP knows.

It may be the only way some people know how to respond to certain questions and they're just trying to be helpful... not have someone tell them to F_off, as the OP would like to do.

It's the new "i read this thread to my husband and he said..." isnt it?

No, AI text is usually quite recognisable.

Yeah, I don't get it. Do posters not realise that it's just repeating back bits and pieces it has picked up from the internet, often changing the meaning, or even making parts up?