With the irruption of the ever increasing use of AI on the Internet since at the end of 2022 ChatGPT was publicly released we have seen an increasing use of it in the forum.
As there are no clear rules about it I have opened this thread so we can discuss and hopefully establish a set of rules about it. This thread is intended not only to provide a guide for forum members, but also for people who will register on the forum, who use the AI on a daily basis and are not clear about what can and cannot be done here.
As a general rule, using an AI to generate or modify text without mentioning it is a bad idea. You can get tagged, you can get reported, your post can get deleted, and you can even get banned. Check nutildah's
AI Spam Report Reference Thread to know what you are dealing with.
ACCEPTABLE USES FOR INDIVIDUALS.
1. Quoting. If you are publishing verbatim something produced by an AI you have to quote it. Today even ChatGPT allows you to post a link to the conversation anonymously.
2. Contribute your own content to the information given to you by the AI and acknowledge it. In this case it is not about quoting, you are using information provided by the AI by providing your own content. An example would be: According to ChatGPT xxx so I think...
3. To summarize. If you want to refer to an article or a book in your argument, you can ask the AI to summarize it for you and use that summary as part of your argument. You have to acknowledge that as well
4. To analyze data. If you want to talk about bitcoin price behavior in the speculation section for example, you can ask the AI to do an analysis between x and y dates or to analyze the effects of interest rate policies or the supposed correlations between stock market indices and bitcoin price, etc. It costs nothing to put Analyzed with AI.
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Nutildah has given me the idea for another acceptable AI use, which is to generate images. It sounds to me that in the same way that no action is taken against anyone on the forum for posting images for alleged plagiarism, the same goes for images made with AI.
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To use it the same way you use a search engine. If you do it that way, of course, you don't have to attribute anything to the AI, as long as the result is sourced.
7. To translate. AIs are better than automated translators and the translated text does not appear as AI generated in the detectors (or appears with a low percentage). But in this respect be aware of the unofficial rule number 27. ...in some cases content created by humans and translated with AI may appear as AI generated by the detectors, so to be on the safe side it is better to use online translators than AI, although I am sure that in the not too distant future they will be integrated.
USES FOR BUSINESSES.
1. Using AI to do your business presentation is something that is becoming more and more common, and on the forum it is generally tolerated. The business is created or bought by you, you feed the data to the AI and it makes a presentation for you. It seems that
neither the forum moderation nor the members have much against it. 2. But using an AI to answer questions members ask about your business is a bad idea. This forum values human interaction and copy-pasting to answer what we ask will be detrimental to the possible popularity you can acquire.
Work in progress.
