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Not again!
– Laurel
Commented Feb 7 at 21:42
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Or even posts -> the more generic content, because AI-generated content is the same level of dangerous anywhere it can be pasted - e.g. reviews and comments. Even comments can persist as part of the knowledge base. When allowed on a site, it should also be properly cited - even in comments.
– Stuck at 1337
Commented Feb 8 at 15:11
Even the bio, as some people have put answers to common questions in their about me section, and sometimes direct people to their bio for that answer. I don’t have an explicit example handy, this is just memory. I haven’t seen anyone post AI content there, but if they can…
– Stuck at 1337
Commented Feb 8 at 15:16
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At least on History.SE, using AI in questions is a whole different kettle of fish. I don't think we have an issue with that in theory, but in practice what we see is people asking questions of the ilk of ("Which is right, this professional historian, or this random crap spit out by an AI?"), and we don't want to allow those.
– T.E.D.
Commented Feb 8 at 18:55
@T.E.D. We have those on Stack Overflow, too. Some are "please debug the code AI spit out and I don't understand", but some are genuine questions that use AI for rephrasing. We can deal with first ones as regular poor questions, and I personally don't see too much harm in second kind, besides the fact that people who tend to use AI for questions will use it in other places. Also AI tends to write a lot more than strictly necessary, so I cannot really say that such questions are really improved comparing to how would they look like without AI help. Overall, I don't see AI is useful in any way.
– Resistance Is Futile
Commented Feb 8 at 19:04
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@ResistanceIsFutile - Well, our issue is I think more subtle, and a better comparison would be the "notability" requirements for questions on Skeptics. We just feel that information from an AI is inherently unreliable, so it cannot be used to establish the kind of confusion of the facts that would necessitate a question in the first place.
– T.E.D.
Commented Feb 8 at 19:07
@T.E.D. Yes, I definitely see how can that be a problem.
– Resistance Is Futile
Commented Feb 8 at 20:03

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