I propose to add the following to the forum guide, comments please:
ChatGPT and other AI
There is no official position from Arduino or within the forum on the use of ChatGPT or other AI as a source of code or other aspects of your project. However, before posting any AI output please consider that if you do so, whether to ask questions about it or in response to a question from someone else, how that will be received in the forum.
If you are using AI output in your project and are having problems with it then it will pretty much be assumed that you are asking forum members to help with code you did not create, do not understand and which most likely has never worked for you or anyone else. Forum members are generally happy to help you with your code, many are not so keep keen to help an AI with its code, especially if it is not the AI asking for the help.
If you are posting AI output as an answer to a question then you are most likely posting content you do not understand and cannot yourself verify the accuracy of, and are therefore probably misleading the person asking for help. Other forum members with more experience will probably call you out for this.
I intend to place this text at the end of the Essentials part of the guide after Be Specific and before About Us, I am of course open to other suggestions for the placement of this text.
While Bob's code would mean the code belonging to Bob, for it, it becomes its. Welcome to the English language. I shall, however, ask a friend who is very good with this kind of thing.
The second part of this sentence does not follow from the first part (i.e., the answer could be correct (with increasing probability as AIs evolve), even if the poster cannot verify the accuracy of the answer). My suggestion would be:
If you are posting AI output as an answer to a question then you are most likely posting content you do not understand and cannot yourself verify the accuracy of, therefore you run the risk of unintentionally misleading the person asking for help.
I am not a native English speaker, but the following looks more natural to me:
This is false. The official policy is that responsible use of AI-generated content is allowed on Arduino Forum.
AI-generated content is simply one of many sources of information on the Internet. There is no need for a special policy for this particular source. You can find bad information from human-generated sources (e.g., Instructables, blogs, YouTube) just the same as you can find bad information from AI-generated sources.
Questions About AI-Generated Content
If someone has questions about some information they found on the Internet, regardless of the source, they are welcome to ask those questions here.
If you don't want to answer a question, that's perfectly fine. Leave it for someone else to answer.
Using AI-Generated Content to Provide Assistance
When providing assistance, copy/pasting content without giving any thought to the information is irresponsible, regardless of the source of that information. You must carefully evaluate AI-generated content for accuracy, relevance, and appropriateness within the context before using it to provide assistance. But the same goes for any other information you find on the Internet.
Malicious Use of AI-Generated Content
A common spammer technique is to make a post from a copy of relevant content from some source on the Internet. A spam link payload is inserted into this content. In addition to human generated content, these posts may be made from AI-generated content.
Posts made for malicious purposes will be deleted and the poster's account suspended. The source of the post content is irrelevant in this case.
Automated Posting of AI-Generated Content
Unsolicited automated posting would be irresponsible, regardless of the source of the post content.
I am surprised by that, can you give me a link to where this is stated?
I'm not trying to state a policy, I am trying to capture the reactions I've seen on the forum to AI generated content, so that if those who bother to read the forum guide want to post AI generated content they have some idea of what to expect in response. If there is a policy it will be a simple thing for me to re-word to take it into account.
I think, and I get the impression others think, there is an important difference, which is that for, for example, a really bad Instructables tutorial there is someone behind it who, it is reasonable to assume, created something that, for them at least, worked. You can never claim that for AI generated content.
Same comment as above.
Agreed, but this is not aimed at people who post malicious content, it is aimed at people who, perhaps misguidedly, post AI created content in good faith.
Of course, I'm not sure how that fits with what I am proposing.
To assume that AI is producing 'information' about a subject is wrong in my view, it might be, it might not as most would assume that 'information' is stuff that is correct and valid.
AI, and indeed the Internet as a whole, is quite capable of supplying 'missinformation' too.
I flagged a completely useless AI response today, using the wrong programming language to "answer" a question, presumably because the language had been mentioned earlier in the thread.
I forgot to screenshot it.
I think that is a good idea. Please reword your proposed text accordingly and I'll review it.
Sure. Obviously those posting malicious content will never follow or even read the guide. I only mentioned it to cover all classes of content use.
It doesn't. I only mentioned it to cover all potential classes of content use.
Not really. As @PerryBebbington explained, How to get the best out of this forum is a guide for legitimate users. There is no point in giving consideration to those posting content maliciously in the guide content because they will never follow or even read the guide.
There is no question of how to handle content from any source that is posted for malicious purposes.
Hmm Pretty sure I already asked where that came from and its originator ?
Which means the statement offered becomes somewhat circular "because I said so".
I have a link that says you all owe me a million dollars but it does not mean jack.
