So you would kick out users then? I’m not kidding now at all. AI is just a tool. The way a tool is used dictates whether it is good, bad, or worthless. But you just say that Meta should drop AI right away, because AI content has been shared several times here.
So, perhaps… it depends, in the same way that the definition of spam varies.
A.I. spam posts are a daily occurrence on the Trainz Simulator forum.
The forum is a Xenforo community type forum.
New accounts are formed, then 1-10 posts show up, scattered through the various forum sub-topics. The posts themselves are harmless to the forum, but they are annoying.
There is a reporting system for accounts and froum posts, which takes care of them pretty easily.
Less than half of the spam for sure… Yet. I’ve been getting 5-10 spam accounts a day for years.
It adds a bit of noise.
The AI spam always looks like this: a well-written, not too formal, not casual post that properly makes use of the context of the forum’s interests, or topic in which it’s posted. The post clearly looks legit, but they tend to contain a random spam link in one of the post words, which is immediately noticed by the community, and flagged by users.
Users report and flag. Also, these post often fall under the Min first post typing time treshold, and are automatically detected as spam by Discourse.
I’d be very interested in a data explorer query that would return the estimated AI spam posts % over a certain duration. Obviously, the criteria for an AI post are very difficult to narrow for a SQL query, but in my case I think I could use keywords. Generic spam usually doesn’t use keywords specific to my community’s interests, while AI posts do use them.
Since AI posts are currently always reported by users, allowing them to be returned as reviewed (rejected) items in a SQL query.
I point non-spam users to the rules that say no AI content unless it’s marked as written by AI and they add some commentary about it.
I’m not anti-AI. I like things like the topic summaries and “weekly summary of AI topics.” The only thing that isn’t allowed in my own forums is writing content with AI and passing it off as human.