I think that Discourse already has the “how-to” section (ask.discourse.com). That’s actually the best AI tool right there in Discourse that users can use by themselves, so they don’t need somebody to do it for them. Everything else should be the “peer” space, where humans interact, ask more questions than provide answers, and happily disagree in order to squeeze some truth here and there.
As beautifully said here:
Most probably, people come to a community space when they have some unusual stuff happening. There is probably a lot of asking questions before a solution is found to a problem, like what version do they use, did they try this or that. Sometimes it’s great if you feel some empathy from other users. AI does not ask questions; it has no intuition about how stupid we are sometimes (e.g. on Meta: Have you tried to rebuild Discourse? Have you tried safe mode ?), and any empathy is definitely fake, no matter how pleasing.
So, my way of handling responses with a majority of AI content – I would probably ban them and implement an AI bot so users can easily help themselves.