Should AI generated posts be banned or otherwise regulated?

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 :)

Nope let it run you decide if it's true that's half the fun. Musk said just pull the plug if it gets out of control. That's what I did when my electric car clicked and went wot. Enjoy the music

Sure...I am no censor.  It just seems some people are losing their ability to think critically. Or at all. Maybe this is just a more obvious symptom of something that has been true for a long time. 

I appreciate the formatting of AI quotes in that they are instantly recognizable so that i just scroll. They are completely useless to me. 

I would certainly prefer to not see AI answers to questions about stereo. This site has been very helpful to me when people talk about their direct experience. I can ask AI questions, too, if needed. But it can't tell me how it feels to have that speaker in that room under those conditions. I'm here to find out how real people do things, and hear things, even if it is not exactly conventional "best practice." I just skip over the AI generated answers, and can continue to do that - it's not that big a deal. 

But if I had a vote, I'd vote to keep it centered on our own direct experiences.

David