AI generated content... Should we report it?

[GiraffeCup]

What is your stance on AI posts in the talk boards?

Should we report it for deletion?

Tbh, this post reads like AI.

you're right. They never ever reply in thread either. Just create threads... Duplicate ones too.

@HebeMumsnet

Don't you guys think it's a bit obvious that using AI tools to check SPAG, would be undetectable to a forum user, but it's glaringly obvious when AI generated content is posted.

Its very easy to tell the difference, and it will dilute the usefulness of your site if you allow AI generated content to stand..

DaringAnt is very much not a genuine poster...

I feel like MN is different now and I suspect it's partly this

I also find it noticeable that there's very few chatty threads. I'm trying to be here less, so it may just be that I don't see them.

I think outlets for chat are also dying a death as people seem to be obsessed with politics.

it's weird because chat IRL seems to be declining and has been for ages - and now online might be going the same way.

I often don't reply to threads that look interesting, unless I know the username.

on a separate note, there was a discussion happening in my building about the mgmt company and the default of one resident was to ask the opinion of AI instead of just ...talking to the mgmt co.

AI seems doubly bizarre when you look at it in context of Dead Internet Theory. I guess soon we'll all be too busy battling apps to get work and life admin done and not even have time to talk online. It's bizarre.

I’m certain that post’s AI, I think the poster was making a point.

It’s also far more common than it used to be for posters not to read anything except the OP and maybe the OP’s other posts before commenting.

I reported all the threads and now they've all gone!

yes, esp with the US spellings (critisize etc). Depressing.

While I'm enjoying @GiraffeCup's AI-generated replies, I do want to add that people are often so semi-literate on here that they accuse anyone writing coherently of being an AI. It's really bloody wearing.

I just take posts on board if they seem to further the discussion in some way, ignore them if they don't. The majority of those I end up ignoring are not written by a computer ... unless the brief was "express a factually incorrect but commonplace opinion in an inappropriately emotional manner, using poor grammar and spelling" 😏

the difference between coherence and AI generates is very very obvious

Not based on some posters, it seems on some threads

or they are american, and whats wrong if they make the effort to contribue to a thread ?

chatty threads depend on the quality and peoples knowledge of the subject matter being discussed , depending on the topic how does it help if what people say is their own words but does not have any context or full knowledge or better knowledge on the subject ?

well one of their threads maxed out the 1000 replys so that gave plenty of conversations to people

you have to ask yourselves why people use chatgpt etc to begin with, many it seems to improve what you say and then its spelling etc

otherwise we are back to the days of relying on a couple of mumsnetters to give their wisdom and knowledge to us fellows but if you use ai to assist or even wikipedia etc then it helps level the knowledge field so all people can part take in an intellectual conversation rather than only a couple of "experts" and the rest trying to understand

i had this issue long before ai , a friend highly skilled at debating and could run rings around my points, but then with ai you can type what you want to say and then ask ai to expand on it and it can help you make the points you want to make but struggle to make without ai assist,

overall how many times have people struggled to understand a persons op, or their points because of grammer spelling etc or even lack of knowledge of the subject, should we go back to the ways of only "experts" being able to discuss their wisdom ?

yes - but it wasn't a "genuine" poster - that poster clearly was only generating questions for the sole purpose of creating conversation but without joining in - event to the point where they created identical posts a few days apart to generate that conversation between others

There's hardly "a few" people, the site has thousands.

and bring real world experiences and conversation is much more useful to a struggling parent than C&P some AI generated crap.

you can tell from the flow / way it is written. It's quite different,.

but then it depends on the thread if its more political then id say more detailed and accurate information is needed eg how many study the policies, how many are fully upto date on x polical history

to many times on political threads you get mud sligging, random i think x is rubbish or incomplete or inaccurate info about the policital history

if the political debate is more what you think of x then i agree we need human views

but if its more policy debates then why rely on the political experts if people can use various tools to reseach obviously as long as they study what they put rather than just generate

could of studyed at oxford etc

people cry for authentic then when you get it, we have threads derailed due to troll hunting, people picking on spelling, people then compalining x situation is false etc why then can people not just focus on the op rather than doing everything other than follow the op ?

we culd evolve mumsnet and when people make a thread they could add in their title or their description ai responses wanted ect

then that way their is no arguement as then its upto the op of the thread what they want the responses to be because after all no op no thread to debate on

then its upto the individual of the op itself their thread their choice etc

anyway apologies for my waffle but i hope you all can understand my points,

yes, but if you're mindlessly C&Ping Chatgpt on these things, there's no checks or anything to make it more true than someone else.

that's human beings.