Should AI be allowed on the forum? Yes or no

[turbopilot]

I will take the word of someone "in real life" that has learned the knowledge by actually having performed the task.

Go ahead but the world is now spending $2 trillion a year on AI technology. This is a big bet if all it takes is to ask someone "in real life" for the answer.

I will follow the money.

 

[team bradfield]

In real life for me, keep your bots

 

[CaptainGizmo]

But the problem is you will not know what "brain" is talking. I guess you have not noticed many posters are just copy/pasting an AI response and representing it as their own. I think the best solution (if we need one) is that we ask anyone pasting an AI response to clearly give that response proper attribution, just like we do with copyrighted material, then the forum participant knows who is talking. Hard to enforce but it would just be a recommendation for participants in the forum.

Exactly! Hence my statement in the 3rd paragraph:
"It's hard enough to cipher through people's responses who've merely used "AI" for the answer to your question. Again, my humble opinion is the age-old phrase: "if I wanted your (AI) opinion, I'll ask for it.""

 

[Boat Bum]

Can you give us example about how this is done? I have AI in Gmail that is constantly giving corrections to grammar and phrasing but it is opt in, not required.

I believe, at this point, they we're only modifying thread titles saying it made them more descriptive and made searching more efficient. They said you could opt out of seeing the changes but they would be changed none the less. I won't go into all the issues I have with this.

I didn't hang around to see the full effect of the changes only to see they were happening and then I quietly left the building.

And I'm not a luddite, I worked in IT for three of the biggest computer manufacturers for over 32 years before consulting in said field. There's a time and place for AI and I don't think this is one of them, certainly not changing people's prose.

 

[redbaron]

There will be no AI integration here. I don't care if people use google search, chatGPT, Gemini, Grok, or whatever. Do your research, trust but verify, but we are talking to humans here, not bots.

Thank you

 

[JBright11]

It's really farirly easy to pick out those posters who use AI extensively with no attribution. There is an ignore function on this forum that works very well so I can easily avoid reading their posts entirely. Easy/peasy.

I, too, am no luddite. I use AI for many things in my profession, every day.

I come here to talk to, and get advice from, people who share some of the same passions as I do and may have encountered the issues I have or will have.