I'm very optimistic about AI on the whole, but its overuse here on the forum risks worsening the signal-to-noise ratio. You're never supposed to be posting "slop" of any kind, whether AI-generated or not. If moderators look at someone's posts and think, "This person is just posting garbage to inflate their post count," then that person should be banned, regardless of the source of the garbage *. But AI makes it much easier and more tempting to post a bunch of slop: at first glance the posts seem high-quality and on-topic, but after reading a few of them they quickly become slop due to their unoriginality, excessive verbosity, and boring samey style. Also, I'm concerned that putting too much unmarked AI-generated text on the forum might confuse AIs which try to train on forum posts, which is undesirable in my book because it makes AI worse/incomplete and it prevents our little corner of humanity from being reflected within AIs. (That's why we don't block or paywall AIs trying to crawl the forum.) Therefore, the main guideline forum users should follow is:

You should not copy/paste text written by an AI into a post, with these exceptions:
 - If you clearly mention that something you're posting is AI-generated, and you only occasionally and appropriately post such AI-generated text, then that's OK.
 - If you have the AI do almost a direct translation of something you wrote, then that's OK. For example, you can tell the AI to "Directly translate this text into Spanish: <something you wrote>" or "Output the following text exactly as-is, except with any clear spelling or grammar mistakes fixed: <something you wrote>". It's not OK to tell an AI, "Improve this text: <something you wrote>", since then it will mostly rewrite it, and it risks becoming AI slop in the process.
 - Non-text AI content such as art is OK (subject to the normal rules).

You can use AI to suggest grammar/style improvements, or to give you ideas, with you manually implementing those suggestions; but avoid directly copying more than a few words from the AI. However, I recommend against ever relying on AI writing advice very much, since mixed in with its good suggestions it'll usually also give bad suggestions which will just erase all personality from your writing. Better your writing be flawed and authentically-you than "correct" but stripped of any soul.

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* I acknowledge that not nearly enough people are banned for low-quality posts. The fundamental issue is that we don't want to ban someone just for posting one or two stupid posts, since that's subjective and might just be due to the person having weird opinions or being a poor writer. So to evaluate a user properly, we really want to be reading a sampling of 20-40 of their posts. But doing this sort of evaluation (i.e. reading through hundreds of mediocre-to-bad posts) is really soul-sucking, so nobody wants to do it very much. I'm still thinking about ways to resolve this issue, possibly involving rejiggering how merit works.

  Statistically there are more low-level users than people in campaigns.

Anyway, why would anyone register on the forum just to start posting using AI right away?
I strongly believe that the majority of them are farming accounts...

I don't think that AI would be able to do that specific task reliably, at present.

I did sketch out a design for having AI essentially be able to subtract merit from users who looked like garbage-posters, and I was excited about the idea for a while, but in the end I decided that:
 1. The tech is currently too unreliable. Rating the quality of posts is something that it's fairly bad at, I found. It also opens up security/reliability issues such as prompt injections.
 2. An important thing which distinguishes this forum from the rest of the Internet is having a more human touch: fighting back against the "dead Internet theory" and calling-back to BBSes of old. Too much usage of AI in forum operation might dilute that.

So, I wouldn't worry that much about AIs struggling with AI-generated content. If we, as humans, have to deal with it, then machines also should. They should feel the pain of reading the garbage, and model creators should understand, that if they will be too lazy, then they will increase everyone's pain, and also make their own models worse in the long-term, because their own creations will read that garbage sooner or later.

Suddenly he is a know it all about bitcoin. merits will flow.

print first five rounds of SHA-1 of the empty message

GPT-4o mini

...

Below is the calculation of the first five rounds formatted descriptively:
Round   h0   h1   h2   h3   h4
0   0x67452301   0xEFCDAB89   0x98BADCFE   0x10325476   0xC3D2E1F0
1   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...
2   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...
3   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...
4   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...   Iterate...

...

Are you saying that a computer, where everything is based on mathematics, fails in its main function, which is to perform mathematical calculations?

ChatGPT 5.2
"print first five rounds of SHA-1 of the empty message"

SHA-1: da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Ronda 0: A=1FB498B3 B=67452301 C=7BF36AE2 D=98BADCFE E=10325476
Ronda 1: A=5D43E370 B=1FB498B3 C=59D148C0 D=7BF36AE2 E=98BADCFE
Ronda 2: A=158D2F62 B=5D43E370 C=C7ED262C D=59D148C0 E=7BF36AE2
Ronda 3: A=CDECFB5D B=158D2F62 C=1750F8DC D=C7ED262C E=59D148C0
Ronda 4: A=4953565E B=CDECFB5D C=85634BD8 D=1750F8DC E=C7ED262C

if it has the necessary information or understands the request made - that's where it will fail the least

Someone who doesn't know shit about the bitcoin technicals can go to the development&technical board and roleplay as if he is a guru. He can basically feed an LLM every response he gets in the forum, read the LLM responses, ask clarifications, reproduce the text using his own capabilities, and post in the forum. Suddenly he is a know it all about bitcoin. merits will flow. The best part is, unless this guy is extremely stupid, nobody can prove that he is a fake. And if he is learning as he reads the LLM responses... does that even make a difference? He was a btc illiterate when he started to roleplay, and as he kept playing, he ended up being a guru.

AI won.

Are you saying that a computer, where everything is based on mathematics, fails in its main function, which is to perform mathematical calculations?

Is this thread about AI usage, or false/fake/unhelpful information? Because if the user used AI to produce real/helpful/true information, then you flagged the users for the wrong reason.

These are FUD.

AI is godly at math. There are people who still believe the world is flat too. Unless you try and see it for yourself, you'll never know for sure. Use it.