Should AI generated posts be banned or otherwise regulated?

emergingsoul:

Funny, I just call the utility company on our land line when experiencing Los Angeles power outages and receive timely updates. 

Suppose I could call them from my $20 ($80 for 360 days of service) cell phone but the audio on the land line is better.

DeKay

Well it's here and it's not going to stop.In 20 years,we will be saying remember when you had to look things up,yourself. Like when people went to a library to look things up.If there parents or grandparents didn't have encyclopedias...lol.

Well it's here and it's not going to stop.In 20 years,we will be saying remember when you had to look things up,yourself. 

@limomangus 

Phone books. That was when people gave up their name, location, and phone number...without pause. 

@emergingsoul 

Within the typical timeline of medical discoveries - from discovery to implementation - is about 10-15 years. Likely 20 years since the FDA has been decimated and earmarked for elimination if science deniers have their way. 

AI sounds great if all things were equal, but in real life whatever you accomplish in a flash via an online tool is going to take years to mature. 

While AI dramatically shortens the discovery phases in science, the process that results in effectuation has been extended. One cancels out the other, in time.

So I solve all of humanities problems with AI, and they give me the noble peace prize, do I have to share the money with AI.  

I took the initiative. 

I would favor a requirement that all AI-generated content be identified as such.

Mind if I tell a story?

I’m a speaker manufacturer, and recently I used AI in an attempt to speed up my search for woofers with a particular set of characteristics, among which was having one or more demodulation rings (also known as "shorting rings" or "Faraday rings"). The answers I received were actually wrong more often than right! I found out by checking the data sheet of every recommendation. In some cases I even contacted the manufacturer to double-check whether the data sheets were correct, just in case the AI had a reliable source of information that I was unaware of. Nope.

The AI presented its incorrect recommendations as if they were absolute facts, with no clue in the wording that there was any uncertainty or any possibility of error.

I’ve seen incorrect and obviously AI-generated audio-related content posted with no disclaimers.  Misinformation is being unintentionally posted by people who mistakenly place unquestioning trust in AI. 

Imo we should at least be given a heads-up by the person making the post when they are posting AI-generated content. 

Duke