LLM as posts on this forum

[ryanjamurphy]

I think we noticed the same thing:

Google NotebookLM--Another tool for note-taking

Okay, I’ll bite: this account has posted five times in the past hour after being dormant for almost two years, and each post looks like stock ChatGPT output. In particular, this post appears to not have been able to see the video in the OP it refers to: "We Are One" Black History Month Program Celebrating the Negro Leagues - #2 by jackyjoy123 What gives?

I moderate another large forum, and there we often see bulk-produced posts like this user’s turned into linkjacking: retroactively adding links via edits for spam or SEO purposes.

So there’re probably two categories of LLM contributions:

1. Bad faith actors just generating content for spam/SEO; and
2. Good faith participants who are for some reason running their contributions through LLMs.

(1) is easy: delete and ban. These “users” usually won’t have a reputation on the forum and it’ll be obvious that they are only in it for ulterior motives.

(2) is another story. I imagine case-by-case will be the best way to sort them out.