I'm having trouble imagining under what kind of circumstances the use of AI would be alright in the context of making posts here. You might have some ideas, but we both know that any tool that would allow retarded shitposters to make coherent posts that they'd otherwise not be able to form with their own brains would be abused to no end. And if exceptions are made, then members who get banned are going to appeal in Meta and it's going to be an enormous shit show.
I say make a rule forbidding any use of AI programs that aid in generation of posts--unless there are very clear exceptions that make sense. Unless there's a rule like that, this forum is in serious trouble. How long do y'all think it'll be until it's just AI bots appearing to make posts related to whatever topic a thread is about? It won't be long, so 1) we need firm rules, and 2) those rules need to be enforced mercilessly.
It wasn't so long ago that the quality of "discussion" being had on bitcointalk dropped so low that Theymos came up with the merit system. AI tools in the hands of greedy scumbags who can't write will make that problem seem like a temporarily glitched pixel.
I agree with what you say, but if there is a rule imposed for AI-generated text posters to get banned or restricted, how do you suggest are those posts identified? I know that currently, AI-generated posts are pretty obviously identifiable because most AI text models have a pattern for their text generation which is detectable if you use a tool, but when more advanced AI models are created that can write in different patterns which aren't easily detectable or identifiable both by humans and AI text detection tools.
In that case, the rule would be difficult to enforce because if we can't know what text is generated by AI, we can't take any action against the users. One might be using an AI but writing in a human-like pattern isn't detectable.