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.

Totally agree OP.

My new favourite phrase is "I shall not spend any time reading what no one could be arsed to write"

i prefer that they let you know its chat GPT, i am on a facebook group and theres a man that always comments clearly using chat GPT and he is always admired by how “thoughtful” and “amazing” he is with words, i feel like screaming its chat GPT but have held back, he never admits to it and pretends he wrote it

The best tool for them to use is their own brain. Somebody who has lived, may have vastly different experiences and opinions I don't agree with, is still more valuable to me than some electronic tosh.

I never specified what work ?

To me it's the ethics of the whole thing.

It's as ridiculous as "I Googled this, and this is what I found."

It's very easy to identify a ChatGPT written post. It is not enjoyable to read or interact with and no, it's not human conversation when someone just copies what the AI has said.

Please take some time to educate yourself on the native political, environmental and social cost of using ChatGPT or any other AI unless you're using it to identify cancer. The AI you're talking about is NOT accurate, creates huge biases, hallucinates and makes things up and it's absolutely NOT verifiable. People come to all advice of humans because we are a social species that NEEDS human connection and relationships to survive.

You are kidding me!? Aren't you proud of the skills you have developed through your own writing? I absolutely despair of the number of academics I see who are happy with the idea of losing the skills of argument development and communication and just bloody thinking!

It is nice to have a chat with other humans, isn't it? It triggers your own brain to be creative and helps you to figure things out.

Completely agree. I hate AI with a passion and it gives me the rage when someone responds to a question with an AI answer - if someone wants an AI answer (which they would be foolish to want) they can ask AI themselves, they don't need someone else doing it for them.

AI is impersonal, people go onto chat forums for personal interactions. No machine can replace personal, human exchanges.

Mumsnet is all about the human experience. When a person posts from ChatGPT on here, I can't be bothered to read it. I skip the post, and go onto the next which is much more relevant because it will be written by a human!

It's the 2026 equivalent of Let Me Google That For You.

Only it's not 'generally accurate', it's wrong enough to be fairly useless or it just gives such bland waffle that contains little useful information.

And when you call it out on it, it does like a PP says:

'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'

So why didn't it give the right information in the first place of it is supposed to be of any use as an information source?

Even when using chatgpt or any form of AI, one needs to apply common sense and personalise it, otherwise it can look silly.

If you simply copy and paste, it will look like a stock response and it also depends on what you ask in the first place.

It uses some words and phrases that are easily recognisable as chatgpt answers.

As far as MN goes, AI it shouldn't replace an actual discussion, but if someone asks what a question like shall I cook for a kid's party...I don't see the issue.

I appreciate we all have different opinions on this.

That's told me then. 😩

I started a thread asking for AI posts to be reported / deleted in site stuff. I think the answer was no … but perhaps MN will change its mind if enough people say they want this. Realistically, it will make the site unusable - if I wanted to talk to AI I would.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5490256-posts-written-by-chat-gpt-and-other-ai

I started a long running S&B thread last year that was deleted after it got very weird with chatGPT posts that were trying to stir trouble (and they succeeded, in spades).

The posts all started with some enthusiastic greeting like ‘Hey there!’ and went on with stuff like ‘I thank you for your interest in our lifestyle and fashion brand!’ ‘I understand why you feel that way, it may be helpful to share that viewpoint with those around you’ - then it segued into nasty accusations to pp’s of buying in sales with the intention to return for full price refunds or sell on for profit before ending with the very artificial sounding platitudes they started with.

It destroyed a good thread about dresses and the arguments it caused upset a few people, including the owner of the fashion brand we were talking about - she contacted MN and said she wanted to sue the OP (me) over it so it was taken down.

AI is not a force for good on chat forums IME. I do wonder what will happen now, its suddenly taking over everything. My instagram (which I don’t post on but have just to take part in a crafting hobby) is already 99% AI generated cats acting like humans.

Completely agree OP. To me, the interesting thing on mumsnet threads is how people reach their conclusions on a particular topic. So why they think a certain way about a certain thing. Not just the end result or outcome.

A post that just says ‘chapgpt says x’ completely negates this. It’s the why I’m interested in, not just the what.

Oddly, I see a lot of similarities between debates on chapgpt and those on weight loss injections. There’s one school of thought that as long as the end destination is reached - be it weight loss or an answer to a particular question - then it really doesn’t matter much how that end destination was reached.

Bur there’s another school of thought - which I strongly subscribe to- that the journey to that destination is just as important. So understanding why a particular conclusion was reached - the thought process, what factors were considered, which weren’t, etc - are an integral part of the picture. Likewise with weight loss injections, I think something is missed when people are taking the short cut without learning how to manage and control their weight and diet (but I realise there’s strong and heated opinions on this!)

But people post LLM content as fact, which it often isn't, and how are you supposed to check?

A lot of the questions people ask here are about personal issues and relationships and I find chat gpt not accurate for information about such issues at all. It will give you a completely different answer depending on how you phrase the question and who you present as asking the question and try and validate the person asking. It’s free and simple to use so why on earth would someone asking for advice want someone to ask chat gpt for them. Anyone who is computer literate enough to use mumsnet is clearly to use chat gpt themselves so it’s so annoying and pointless .

Has anyone posted anything about AI's confusion about Popes?

https://toddkmarsha.com/blog/faith/leo-xiv-is-the-pope-apparently-no-one-told-ai-national-catholic-register/

If it can be inconsistently wrong on a very simple issue, how is it going to be reliable on anything complex? Consistently wrong would be bad enough.

It sounds like a storm in a virtual teacup when I try to describe it but it was awful for a few people involved, not least the owner of the company who ended up feeling she’d actually been libelled by her biggest admirers.

I don’t know who posted the AI rubbish that caused it but don’t think it would have happened without the AI element.