AI slop on this forum (3 Viewers)

[FulmenTheFinn]

Lately there's been an uptick in users making AI-generated posts not just in the Aviation sub-forum, but in the Technical sub-forum as well. Because the AI-generated "information" is generally partly or entirely factually incorrect, I feel it takes away from the purpose of the forum by presenting false information as fact, misleading people less familiar with the topic and annoying those who are. Would it be possible to add a rule forbidding this sort of behaviour and warning users engaging in it? And if they persist, banning them. Or is it just too much of a hassle? It is very easy to recognise AI-generated text and usually the posters themselves admit it's AI-generated. It's usually also the same individuals posting most of the AI slop.

Here's a few examples:

Finnish air force Mustang kills on Russian Front?

Finnish air force Mustang kills on Russian Front?

highest kill ratio - both this and the above thread are full of AI posts made by the same users in the past few days.

Flight Test Data - 17 AI threads on the first page, most of them from September 2026.

Thank you for your time.

 

[Mainly28s]

Agreed- this would be a positive change for the forum.

 

[Sabrejet]

Totally agree: AI is a blight and serious forums should ban it without exception.

 

[Crimea_River]

....It is very easy to recognise AI-generated text....

Enlighten me please.

 

[FulmenTheFinn]

Enlighten me please.

Take a look at those posts I linked, and others in those threads by the same users, and try out some LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, etc., take your pick) for yourself by asking them questions, in this case especially history-related ones. You'll very quickly notice a pattern. For the marginally less obvious stuff, watch this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ch4a6ffPZY

 

[Marcel]

I totally get your sentiment and I do share it.
One wonders what is the point in posting something that anybody can get from these models themselves. Apart from info, a forum like this is also about human contact and this goes totally against that.

But I'm afraid this is the reality we have to deal with. The internet is broken down by slop and every day it gets harder to find anything genuine. Not helped by the fact that people are lazy. At my work I never know if I'm texting a human or a model. It's demoralising.
I can say much more, but you'll get my sentiment about AI when you read some of my posts. These are sad times.

I'm not sure if we can do anything about it. These are recognisable, but when people do a humanising action, it'll be much harder. Will probably have a chat in our forum team about this.

I would advise you to call people out on it when you see it. As long as you don't turn it into a fight, I would have nothing against that.

 

[Jadera]

Lately there's been an uptick in users making AI-generated posts not just in the Aviation sub-forum, but in the Technical sub-forum as well. Because the AI-generated "information" is generally partly or entirely factually incorrect, I feel it takes away from the purpose of the forum by presenting false information as fact, misleading people less familiar with the topic and annoying those who are. Would it be possible to add a rule forbidding this sort of behaviour and warning users engaging in it? And if they persist, banning them. Or is it just too much of a hassle? It is very easy to recognise AI-generated text and usually the posters themselves admit it's AI-generated. It's usually also the same individuals posting most of the AI slop.

Here's a few examples:

Finnish air force Mustang kills on Russian Front?

Finnish air force Mustang kills on Russian Front?

highest kill ratio - both this and the above thread are full of AI posts made by the same users in the past few days.

Flight Test Data - 17 AI threads on the first page, most of them from September 2026.

Thank you for your time.

I totally agree with this, however I think banning someone for this might be a little much no?

 

[Crimea_River]

Take a look at those posts I linked, and others in those threads by the same users, and try out some LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, etc., take your pick) for yourself by asking them questions, in this case especially history-related ones. You'll very quickly notice a pattern. For the marginally less obvious stuff, watch this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ch4a6ffPZY

He lost me at "Mdash". And what the f!ck is an LLM? Sure must be simple to some people but I'm not one of them, sorry.

 

[Jadera]

He lost me at "Mdash". And what the f!ck is an LLM? Sure must be simple to some people but I'm not one of them, sorry.

LLM is a large language model

 

[Marcel]

He lost me at "Mdash". And what the f!ck is an LLM? Sure must be simple to some people but I'm not one of them, sorry.

Mdash is a new word for over using dashes —like this—. Ai is known to do that alot.

The examples that the topic starter gave also shows the use of lists, bold text etc. Most AI models do that more than humans as well.
Also the way sentences are constructed feel very AI, something you'll start to notice when you've seen enough output from large language models (LLM). So I agree with the topic starter, these are very clearly unaltered output from AI.

 

[FulmenTheFinn]

Mdash is a new word for over using dashes

I'm getting into the off-topic weeds here (admittedly in part because the etymology of language is an interest of mine), but it's not exactly a new word, nor is its sibling the en-dash, named after the width of the letters M and N respectively. Both have been known as such at least since the 19th century. Usage of the terms went up considerably starting in the late 1970s. Here's a Google Ngram chart: