I think theymos should probably make an announcement about prohibiting this sort of use of AI or at the very least we add it to the "unofficial" forum rules but users should be alerted not to use it in such a way. If a user if just going to use it to copy and paste the title of a thread or the OP into an AI then copy and paste the results that should be treated the same as plagiarism. If it isn't then this place isn't going to be a discussion forum for much longer but just a get paid to copy and post AI responses forum.
I agree. It would be nice to hear from The Big Man about a soft policy on this, hopefully something akin to what
Stack Overflow has done. Not only are AI-generated posts spammy but they often contain wrong information as well.
The question remains of how to best determine that a post was written using AI. This tool seems to have the best rate of accuracy, but it doesn't judge how much of a text is AI-written, just whether or not it is "likely" to contain AI-written material:
https://hivemoderation.com/ai-generated-content-detectionThe other decent ones include:
https://writer.com/ai-content-detector/https://contentatscale.ai/ai-content-detector/Other clear signs of AI-generated posting:
- using perfect English & punctuation when the poster's previous posts did not
- writing long texts in rapid succession, when it was unlikely to be possible manually