Should AI generated posts be banned or otherwise regulated?

I do not know how to use a lathe, but I often use AI and enjoy it...I just don’t find it useful in the context of a group discussion, such as these forums...I realize many are quite fond of it...

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i am with @dekay ​​​​@mapman you can post what you want, but i get to ignore what i want  ...

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A common characteristic of AI is flattery. It's interesting that more users don't recognize the manipulation.

@cleeds - I've found that Gemini, by default, is very friendly and supportive, ChatGPT more to the point; in any event, all you have to do is tell it how you want to be 'spoken' to, and if you don't like flattery or conversational answers, you won't get it anymore. 

AI is a tool.

How to one uses a tool is either a skill/asset or a crutch/liability. 
Best practice would be to learn how to use your tools properly and not Ban them.

Thanks to all for your thoughts. I know some folks are AI fanatics and some not. 

Ironically I think the Claude response hits the nail on the head. It is that a forum is to engage with people. 

Before AI there was non-AI Google, and I would view searching Google and asking a forum to be entirely different activities - I would do both to get info - but seeing them in a sense merge, and people just being conduits for more automated info...I dunno. 

Perhaps this has to do with the fact that I'm an attorney and clients are now sending all kinds of AI crap that has no value to me as counsel and makes it hard for me to confirm what clients really understand and what AI is just enabling them to say without really engaging their brains. 

Getting AI answers from a forum is a little like being invited over to dinner and then seeing a Little Caesar's pizza delivery truck pull up.  So I guess I would say that I am not averse, at all, to using AI to gather information. But just pasting in the results isn't much of a contribution. It also just reinforces the LLM to regurgitate that same info as established knowledge (albeit I understand there are technologies under way to avoid AI consuming itself). 

I suppose I did not mean "ban" or "regulate" as much as have the forum members reach some understanding about how AI should fit into something that is intended to bring people together. I mean, consensus is really easy to reach here on other issues :)