Is this board being overrun by AI bot posts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there’s a difference between posting something written by AI and passing it along as “real” and making clear from the outset that “I asked AI and it said . . .” The first is deceitful and the second is not. Sometimes when there’s a request for purely factual information why not just use AI—so long as you disclose it?

Because as Jeff just said, if people wanted to use AI, they would. They clearly wanted advice from real humans.

[Anonymous]

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jsteele wrote:I am fairly comfortable in saying that poster is not an A.I. bot. That said, there have been two recent issue with A.I.:

1) Posters using A.I. to compose their responses. They don't include their own thoughts but simply post something like "A.I. says blah, blah, blah". I delete those if they are brought to my attention.

2) A.I. bots that either start or respond to threads. There was a day in which two separate bots did this to over 100 threads. The responses and initial posts in new threads were very realistic. I only discovered it by accident. I have not see this occur on any other days, though I could easily have missed it happening again. Of course, I also delete these.

Despite these two issues, I wouldn't say the board is being overrun by A.I. bots. The real damage of A.I. to DCUM is that people get their answers from A.I. rather than DCUM and, hence, our usage is going down.

Something about that in particular is so bleak to me. Posting on a message board is completely voluntary; if you're so lazy that you need Chat GPT to compose your answer for you, why bother doing it?

I swear AI is going to be the death of society as we know it.

It's not just here, but other places I frequent. The only reason I frequented those places was because they had real people with authentic responses and it's all gone to S*** now. I still call out the AI BS when I see it, but it's a losing cause. Agree it's really a shame because most of the people relying on those canned responses are being grossly mislead

There was a thread on off-topic almost a year ago about "How often do you get advice from AI as opposed to DCUM" and I was like...wtf.

Why would you get AI from a chatbot? A chatbot. Like, I get using it to come up with a meal plan or a road trip itinerary but advice? You would rather talk to a robot than other humans for advice? What on earth?

And there were a number of people who said depending on the subject/what mood they were in they'd rather go to Chat GPT than here. One weirdo even said that she trained AI to sext with. (Not joking, I specitically remember my friends and I laughed about that one for weeks.)

It's a scourge. And then people wonder why we have cases like those two kids committing suicide after talking to a chatbot and it's like, adults are talking to chatbots. We've normalized it for these kids.

Most of the answers from AI actually come from scouring threats like this and Reddit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there’s a difference between posting something written by AI and passing it along as “real” and making clear from the outset that “I asked AI and it said . . .” The first is deceitful and the second is not. Sometimes when there’s a request for purely factual information why not just use AI—so long as you disclose it?

Because as Jeff just said, if people wanted to use AI, they would. They clearly wanted advice from real humans.

Actually I’m not sure that everyone on DCUM knows the ins and outs of AI. But ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there’s a difference between posting something written by AI and passing it along as “real” and making clear from the outset that “I asked AI and it said . . .” The first is deceitful and the second is not. Sometimes when there’s a request for purely factual information why not just use AI—so long as you disclose it?

Because as Jeff just said, if people wanted to use AI, they would. They clearly wanted advice from real humans.

Actually I’m not sure that everyone on DCUM knows the ins and outs of AI. But ok.

And thank god for that. I’m sick of AI dominating every discussion, every conversation. I refuse. I’m grateful to Jeff for drawing a line.

[Anonymous]

People prefer AI because it’s sycophantic - it flatters the human, unlike many DCUM posters to ridicule others. I am sad to see less interaction here, but I can understand why it’s happening. And the PP above who mentioned that AI uses ‘sources’ like Reddit is correct.