How do you guys deal with users that use AI to automatically reply to threads so they can gain trust level?

[Andrew_Rowe]

@Divinebaboon

they want to gain higher trust level to access trust-gated sections of the forum.

well how you should handle this issue my question would be how much do you value your trust-gated content and how much you value access to said content.

If it is content you don’t want people ‘gaming the system’ to gain access, I’d figure out how to try to stop such behavior.

Reason being such behavior is common place. See Robert’s example:

@merefield

one sock puppet account posts one new topic with AI then a shortish while later a new user (presumably owned by same actor) posts a reply agreeing with and complimenting the OP

ah… this goes on here… every day

Anyhow

@Divinebaboon

how do you tell if something is written by ai?

a lot of times it is pretty obvious to a human moderator by simply reading it but that takes moderator time. Some admins are employing AI to catch the AI (funny huh?)

see similar discussion here:

Anyone else seeing a drastic drop in community activity for Support forums?

Fair point. For clarity, we are also a “support” forum. It is intentionally quoted as it is a bit more grey than that, but that is still one of the driving factors bringing people to us.