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Foundation The use of AI bots on forums

For topics focused on starting or structuring a community.
It becomes rather obvious when you get a reply as fast as it takes your post to render for you.
Exactly. I can’t wait until the day that Google lays the ban hammer on the sites that uses them and deindexes them for breaking their spam guidelines.😅

Scaled content abuse is when many pages are generated for the primary purpose of manipulating search rankings and not helping users. This abusive practice is typically focused on creating large amounts of unoriginal content that provides little to no value to users, no matter how it's created.

Examples of scaled content abuse include, but are not limited to:

  • Using generative AI tools or other similar tools to generate many pages without adding value for users
  • Scraping feeds, search results, or other content to generate many pages (including through automated transformations like synonymizing, translating, or other obfuscation techniques), where little value is provided to users
  • Stitching or combining content from different web pages without adding value
  • Creating multiple sites with the intent of hiding the scaled nature of the content
  • Creating many pages where the content makes little or no sense to a reader but contains search keywords
 
I am not a fan at all. As others have stated, I can see some very limited example use-cases where it might be appropriate - technical support forums, roleplaying forums and the like.

I recently saw an AI bot replying to threads/posts made on a forum within a couple of seconds. The content is clearly AI-generated and as a member is really de-motivating to see - I initially thought, damn, someone replied to my thread fast! - only to find out it was an AI bot that literally gave a message that was almost a direct prompt from ChatGPT... ugh. :sick:
 
I don't like them even though I am using it on a forum I co-own and also on a forum I manage. However, I can justify the use of AI bots on some sections. It can keep the discussion lively for a certain category.
 
I rather have real discussions with actual members on my forum. I'm sure Google prefers that too, and I don't want my forum to get penalized for AI content.
 
Much rather real discussions by real people. AI/ML has a time and place I could see it being an assistance to moderation (not a full on replacement just does certain) tasks.
 
Since AI went viral, the blockers or members who created natural content for communities have ceased to exist, now everything is based on AI generated. For me it is an initial topic maybe we can leave it but for answers I would not see it well.
 
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