When AI gets mixed with forums

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Goes without saying AI has rapidly invaded a lot of stuff this year and keeps on growing, I'm sure it won't be long till it gets on forums. Curious on what other people think of AI joining as regular members and just posting as if they were humans?

Or even worse, if AI is used with spambots and can bypass any website anti-spam methods.
 
I heard AI servers and companies are very expensive to keep running, so I feel it would be awhile before most people use AI to post on forums, or use AI to spam on forum when it is more affordable to manually spam forum or using a spambot program to spam forums.
 
Imagine being gaslit by AI. The personal behavior of an AI and getting to know it is fine, but imagine it having opinions on politics and religion.
 
Better get to Nintendo 3DS Central and write a new rule!

Tiger21820 said:
22. AI usage on Nintendo 3DS Central
Yes, we know that "AI is the future" and they can do all sorts of cool things, so because I'm a nice guy, I can allow the usage of AI bots on Nintendo 3DS Central under THESE conditions and provisions:

01. All AI bots MUST be authorized by a Nintendo 3DS Central Administrator (Not a Co-Administrator!), and MUST BE clearly tagged as such (Username, signature, title, etc.) You must specify the company and the website where it is managed! If that's not present, then it will be rejected!
02. AI bots from non-members WILL NOT be permitted under ANY circumstances! ALL UNAUTHORIZED BOTS WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED ON SIGHT!!!
03. All AI bots MUST BE SAFE FOR WORK! See rule 5 for more details!
04. If an AI bot goes rouge, then it's OUTTA THERE!
05. All AI bots must not post any content that the owner did not grant permission to use on this forum! If anyone complains about anything a bot posts, it will be removed, and it CAN be banned!
06. No spam/advertising bots UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! We get enough of those already!
07. It is YOUR responsibility to keep your bot under control! Nintendo 3DS Central staff shall not be held accountable for anything that your bot does!
08. We reserve the right to refuse, deny, ban, or delete any AI generated message or AI bot, without warning and without any reason, AND to entirely repeal this rule either for a while, or FOREVER!
09. It will cost you 30,000,000 forum points to approve an AI bot! They will be tied to your account, but you will not have any control over it's user account on Nintendo 3DS Central, nor will any violations it commits be counted against your primary account! MUST BE A FULL MEMBER OR GREATER TO PURCHASE!
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So what will you do Demon_Skeith Demon_Skeith ?
 
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Hopefully, AI bots don't post many thousands of posts per day which fill up a forum's database file with too many AI written text posts.

Smaller independant forums with less money may have to shutdown, reduce service, and find more ways to make money for faster more expensive wenb hosting because the forum's owner can't afford a better web hosting server which can handle the increase web traffic from AI bots, and the increase storage require to store many AI posts which take up GBs to TBs of database storage space if AI bots post a lot of posts per day.
 
I'm not for AI. While it could pass for human, it's still not a human. We are unique & no computer program can make up for that fact.
I would hate for it to post on political & religious topics as we have enough humans debating.
 
ZandraJoi said:
I'm not for AI. While it could pass for human, it's still not a human. We are unique & no computer program can make up for that fact.
I would hate for it to post on political & religious topics as we have enough humans debating.
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If AI becomes what we have shown it in media, it will become more than human.
 
I think AI member may cause some smaller forums with less money to only accept human members if AI bots use up too much website bandwidth, web server resources like CPU and RAM, and post too many posts which end up slowing down smaller forums, and filling up the database file on free and cheaper paid web hosting plans.
 
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I'm afraid it will get to this level in no distant time. It's similar to what's happened with Twitter bots. What AI can do is frightening. If you're in doubt, it won't be too long and we would all find out.
 
Ja sa bong said:
I'm afraid it will get to this level in no distant time. It's similar to what's happened with Twitter bots. What AI can do is frightening. If you're in doubt, it won't be too long and we would all find out.
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People should be frightened. Humans are already making a mess of each other & the planet. We don't need an AI to make a bigger mess. While it may be "for the greater good", people don't like being ruled by other people. They won't want to be ruled by a computer program.
 
ZandraJoi said:
People should be frightened. Humans are already making a mess of each other & the planet. We don't need an AI to make a bigger mess. While it may be "for the greater good", people don't like being ruled by other people. They won't want to be ruled by a computer program.
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I used to fear that nuclear war is going to be death and end of us but I was wrong. It's going to be AI if we are not careful how we are going about its usage.
 
Ja sa bong said:
I used to fear that nuclear war is going to be death and end of us but I was wrong. It's going to be AI if we are not careful how we are going about its usage.
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When I was younger, nuclear war was the biggest thing we feared. Then came computers, the internet, & now AI. I'm hoping some people put a stop to it. AI can be used for good, but humans have to be careful it doesn't take over us.
 
ZandraJoi said:
When I was younger, nuclear war was the biggest thing we feared. Then came computers, the internet, & now AI. I'm hoping some people put a stop to it. AI can be used for good, but humans have to be careful it doesn't take over us.
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Yes, we need to take our foot off the gas a little and slow down from how we are chasing tech advancements in every sector including medicine. I still believe COVID was either a mistake which came out as an experiment gone wrong or it was created on purpose.
 
I hope AI websites which post a lot of AI written posts, videos, music, and images won't seriously slow down other websites which are hosted on the same web hosting company server. I think if too many websites start to post too many AI generated post an hour, it may cause more affordable smaller web hosting companies to raise the price of web hosting plans because AI programs can use a lot of electricity, and web server resources like bandwidth, storage space, and CPU and RAM resources which can be costly for web hosting companies to upgrade and maintain.

A lot of webmasters can't afford to host a website on a more expensive dedicated server web hosting plan, and may only have enough money to subscribe to shared web hosting plans which may contain AI websites which post a lot of AI content per hour which end up slowing other web host customer's websites if AI sites, on the same server, post thousands to millions of posts per hour instead of only a few posts per hour like most forums and blogs.
 
I think there is a chance that AI will not be very popular for many General Disscussion, non-profit, and hobby forums in the future because using most popular AI services like ChatGPT may become a paid subscription service if AI services can't make enough money from ads or not enough people use the paid version of AI to pay for the AI companies expenses like servers, electricity, and its workers like the CEO and programmers. A lot of forum owners may not want to or can't afford to pay for a yearly subscription to use AI services, mods and plug-ins on their forum, or use AI to write forum posts because it is more affordable to write your own posts for free or a low price if you only buy a few paid articles per year.

Smaller forum could have problems hosting their own AI mods and services on more affordable shared web hosting which may not possible without noticeably slowing down their forum if their web host's web hosting servers don't have very fast CPUs, lots of RAM, SSD storage drives, fast GPU/video card, and a very fast internet connection with enough bandwidth for AI programs to run at a fast speed. Some web hosts also want forums to upgrade to a more expensive hosting plan once a forum use too much web server resources like bandwidth, RAM, storage, and CPU cycles because some AI mods may use up more server resources .
 
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I always see forum admins concerned about the impact of AI posters and spam, both of which are likely going to be a thing and also likely to be a challenge for forums, but they often overlook the positives, like AI moderation tools and content suggestions.

AI is merely a tool at this point as we are far from a General AI that people should be worried about. Like any tool, it can be used poorly (e.g. artificially posting subpar user content) or it can be an asset (e.g. hiding spam posts so mods can review them later to prevent spam or even harmful content).

Imagine having say a debate section and when a user tries to post "I disagree" and add nothing to the debate, an AI tool can prompt their reply with a pre posting message to encourage adding reasons and references.

AI can also be the cornerstone of much more advanced tools to inform users that the topic they are about to post already exists or allowing admins to have the AI bring in references automatically for content posted in day a tech support section.

The perks seem to vastly outweigh the negatives.
 
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