AI Content on the forum

[Ben]

I agree and it's a timely thread. I am heartily sick of AI text summaries (and AI videos presenting as real footage, which is a more general problem outside the forum). Between that, and the Twitter/YouTube dumping on threads, I am scrolling and scrolling past more and more posts, and I might even miss some gems in between the cracks doing this. I have less time than ever and the forum has more posts than ever. A lot of them would not be missed. It didn't used to be that way.

 

[Cosmos]

Quality over quantity. If more of us can engage those "who gave up" on thinking with a hammer here in the forum in precisely doing that, the signal-to-noise ratio will stay good.

Good idea IMO. So maybe if we could all work together in that regard, things could improve significantly. So in that sense we all can not only do it ourselves as a good example but we can point it out to others so that the noise comes down again.

 

[hoosiermystic]

I also scroll past AI-generated posts, but a short quoted summary can be useful in composing a well-rounded argument or reflection. I really don't like AI's "voice," I think for the same reason I never liked pop music - too superficial. Pop music is the common denominator made to appeal to the masses, and AI generates the common denominator from the masses.

I use AI most days at work for coding; it speeds things up tremendously and can be used to learn new, more efficient and elegant approaches. Other days I avoid it to build my brain muscles. Sometimes the bot gets itself stuck in a circle and can't generate a functional solution. It is an indicator that I'm relying a little to heavily on it, and I should probably take a break. When I come back and find the solution myself, it is quite gratifying.