Do you allow AI content within your community?

[Shortie]

AI content is something that is becoming more popular and frequent in online communities with many turning to AI for ideas on what to write about and using that to create a topic to drum up engagement. 

Do you allow AI content within your community? If yes, how far will you let it got before you put your foot down? 

[JoelR]

AI written content in communities is an interesting social experiment to me.  

As long as the content is aligned with the topic, I don't see the problem at this point in time - to be frank, a large majority of users generated content is not very useful or helpful.  For example: forum games, forum battles, low value replies, etc.  

It's going to make authoritative and vetted, trusted content even more valuable.  

[Shortie]

On 1/21/2024 at 8:22 PM, JoelR said:

AI written content in communities is an interesting social experiment to me.  

As long as the content is aligned with the topic, I don't see the problem at this point in time - to be frank, a large majority of users generated content is not very useful or helpful.  For example: forum games, forum battles, low value replies, etc.  

It's going to make authoritative and vetted, trusted content even more valuable.  

I was under the impression that AI-generated content was frowned upon when it came to SEO. Is this not the case?

I feel many webmasters tend to steer clear of it for that very reason, would be interesting to know if that is the case though. 

[Sofia]

13 hours ago, Shortie said:

I was under the impression that AI-generated content was frowned upon when it came to SEO. Is this not the case?

There is a difference.

• AI-generated content without human review is mostly garbage, not helpful and frowned.
• AI-generated content with human review and fact check is state of the art. 😉 

[JoelR]

18 hours ago, Shortie said:

I was under the impression that AI-generated content was frowned upon when it came to SEO. Is this not the case?

I feel many webmasters tend to steer clear of it for that very reason, would be interesting to know if that is the case though. 

I haven't actually seen any studies yet from the major SEO blogs on the impact of AI content to SEO.  If anything, AI is much better at SEO-optimized content than the regular user.  The regular user can't do proper titles, tagging, etc.  

In regards to a broader thought, I think way too many legacy forum webmasters overthink and overemphasize SEO.  Google doesnt ignore their site because "OMG it has 2 AI articles", Google ignores their site because their site isn't very valuable to begin with.  It's all social low value like forum battles, everyday conversations, count backwards, etc.  

[Sofia]

20 hours ago, JoelR said:

It's all social low value like forum battles, everyday conversations, count backwards, etc.  

This. 

20 hours ago, JoelR said:

orum webmasters overthink and overemphasize SEO

SEO is like a good fuel. The community is the car. But the fuel is useless if the car itself is a piece of junk. 😉

[Nomad]

I want humans to interact in my communities, I do not want perfect posts but I want posts that reflect the opinions of real humans, that's why I do not allow AI-generated content in my communities. For me, interactions in communities should be real.

[Maria]

Well, edited AI generated content are find for blogs, however, I believe online community should strictly avoid AI generated content. Online communities are real interactions, interactions between real humans. It does not look good when machines talk to each other.

[Dilip]

Even though Google is not that aggressive against AI content, I try to skip them where possible. It is better to be safe than sorry.