What's with all these OP's with a paragraph in bold type?

[KittyAndPatch]

Has anyone else noticed this?

Here I will set the scene.

And here is a paragraph in bold confirming the scenario and positing my AIBU question.

Something I have noticed recently, but perhaps has been the norm for a while and I just haven't been paying attention!

YABU - Yes, I've noticed it too
YANBU - Nope, always been the way.

I sometimes do it if I want to quote part of a post

YABU - Yes, I've noticed it too
YANBU - Nope, always been the way

So the poster can see what I am replying to? Sometimes there is a lot of information that doesn't need to quoted so I find the quote button useless?

I assume they are posts that we're written with AI. Not necessarily that they're a fake post made by some bot, though I don't discount that possibility. But more likely that the OP used chatGPT to organise their thoughts into a post designed for mumsnet

It’s people using AI to write their posts.

AI!

Ive noticed when they paste the title at the start in bold too and then post underneath. Defo AI

It's to distinguish quoted material from poster's writing.

I assume AI too. My ChatGPT puts random sentences in bold as a summary quite often.

• AI

What are they quoting, if they're the OP? And anyway, we have quote marks for that.

I always just assume it's AI and close the thread.

No, the type the OP is talking about have ‘key themes’ of the post highlighted in bold - like the companion book to a set text. I assume it’s another brilliant ChatGPT innovation…