AI posts

[MeowCatPleaseMeowBack]

Every other forum I'm on has now implemented a rule against AI posts. Is MNHQ considering something similar?

I see a lot of threads blatantly written by Chat GPT and also a lot of replies saying "this is what Chat GPT says" then a long copy and paste. If people wanted a conversation with Chat GPT they would go to Chat GPT, not to a discussion forum designed for humans to talk to each other. I would really like to see this banned.

Hello @MeowCatPleaseMeowBack thanks for posting. It's certainly on our radar and something we've been discussing. Right now, our approach has been to remove reported posts that are clearly spammy or misleading. We also know that some users find it helpful to reference AI tools like ChatGPT in the same way they might quote from an article or expert source, but we agree that this should never replace genuine, human discussion.

We’ll keep reviewing as the situation evolves. If you see posts you think cross the line, please do report them so we can take a closer look.

Thanks for the response.

So if somebody copy and pastes an AI response with no commentary/editorialising, does that cross the line or is it ok?

I think those copy and pasted 'advice' dumped on threads from artificial intelligence should be deleted as spam. I've seen people pasting huge swathes of ai drivel, passing it off as legal advice or similar! Ai is internet slop that shouldn't be believed or trusted in any way.
The fact they write it's from an ai app shouldn't matter, it's still spam.

I agree. I think pasting reams of text from any source is spam and not discussion; it's just that I only see people doing this with AI text rather than newspapers/articles/whatever.

I agree its as bad as spam. I see increasing numbers of posts saying “this is what chatGPT sez” with zero additional insight from the PP or any attempt to validate the long screed of information. Sometimes they are passed off as original content.

It disrupts any discussion, not least because it always produces a series of posts saying “oh gods not more ChatGPT”.

AI tools are great for many things but contributing in a meaningful and contextual manner is not a skill available in any of the free AI tools as yet.

I agree with all the posters above.

And fgs, the environmental damage alone from the servers should be against everything MNHQ stands for, given their various campaigns and promotional positions on a number of supposedly 'green' products.

The ChatGPT threads (often from posters who post once or twice then disappear) suck, no one comes onto a forum to read ai posts.
it surprises me mumsnet aren’t taking a firmer line considering their history with OpenAI. Constant ai slop is so off putting on a forum.

Constant ai slop is so off putting on a forum.

It really is. I'm active on four sites that have all put it to a vote with the users, and each time the users have overwhelmingly voted for no AI.

I agree with the OP and PPs. My eyes roll so hard every time a post starts with "I've asked chatGPT for you OP and here's what it says" as if they're doing the OP a service. And half the time it's wrong, other posters have to point this out, the OP sometimes takes the advice at its face value (because too many people think AI is a bloody oracle).
I work in AI in my day job atm. My brain gets full of it, all day every day. I know its flaws because I work on them. I genuinely don't think some of the AI out there should have been rolled out yet because it's so bad but that's the topic of another thread in itself. I don't want to see it when I come on MN to get away from it and talk to humans. Coming on here's starting to feel like a busman's holiday and I find myself going to YouTube to watch things made by real humans instead more and more often.

Agree it should be banned completely or the forum will become pointless. I always scroll past posts where the poster has copied and pasted from ChatGPT and don’t read threads at all if it looks like the OP is AI. I’ve already more or less given up Facebook because of the AI posts, and would do the same with any other social media platform/forum that gets swamped with AI.