Should AI generated posts be banned or otherwise regulated?

the power of this forum, on its best days, is the wealth of experience brought to bear by (an admittedly aging) but kind, knowledgeable, articulate population of dedicated hobbyists, whom are collectively seeking learn to from each other, and share ideas, observations, experiences and potential solutions as needed for making wonderful music in their respective systems

ai is a tool, that can aid in this venture to share and collectively raise each others’ enjoyment and well being, just as there are many other research-based tools ranging from old printed articles, older posts from the past here and from other forums, published reviews, and so on

too often folks use these forums to self aggrandize, boast, come across as smarter than thou...  we should try to refrain from this as much as possible and remember the core reason for this board

ai -- imperfect as it may be -- can sometimes help us if used towards our main, shared objective -- but regulating it seems unnecessary as it is just another tool -- it is helpful if those posting messages basically quoting a-i output can identify those posts as such, so that readers can know the source

@jjss49 

I think you’re missing the point. Identifying AI posts as such is not helpful, for the stench of AI is unmistakable anyway.

For sure, AI can be useful and valuable. Sometimes.

AI can also be the crutch of feeble-minded imbeciles.

It is the latter kind of posts we should endeavor to eliminate. 

@hilde45 

the problem is that people don’t accurately state their symptoms.  Most of my career was spent trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff in obtaining a patient history.  There is no way that the accuracy of this going to increase with people inputting their story to a keyboard that isn’t going to be able to give instant feedback, or detect the clues in body language, etc

@mahler123 That makes more sense to me now. Thanks.

Most of my career was spent trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff in obtaining a patient history.  There is no way that the accuracy of this going to increase with people inputting their story to a keyboard that isn’t going to be able to give instant feedback, or detect the clues in body language, etc

Precisely the issue we have as attorneys representing clients.  We cannot tell what they really understand or want because they send AI generated stuff as though the AI was our client.