“Wholly AI-generated posts should not be allowed on the EA Forum” by MichaelDickens

<p> As a daily reader of the EA Forum, I have found the experience significantly degraded recently. When I come to the /allPosts page, I am confronted with an onslaught of posts with a single upvote, mostly by brand-new users.</p>

<p> I want to give genuine new users a chance and read their stuff, and maybe upvote it. But when I see a pattern of "brand new user wrote long complicated post that currently has no upvotes", most of the time it's fully AI-generated, and it's a waste of my time to read it.</p>

<p> Even just reading through the titles wears me out and makes me want to leave. There will be maybe 15–20 posts for the day, most of which have long, kind of vague titles that take me a minute to parse.</p>

<p> In principle, I don't object to using AI to clean up your prose. But as far as I can tell, these posts usually have zero human thought behind them.*</p>

<p> Many of these posts are already automatically flagged as AI by Pangram. Rather than flagging and leaving them, these posts should be deleted. Or at minimum, the "AI-generated" flag should be visible from the [...]</p> <p>---</p>

<p><b>First published:</b><br/>

September 10th, 2026 </p>

<p><b>Source:</b><br/>

<a href="https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XwEa7ZEDceaB255Jb/wholly-ai-generated-posts-should-not-be-allowed-on-the-ea?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Source+URL+in+episode+description&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XwEa7ZEDceaB255Jb/wholly-ai-generated-posts-should-not-be-allowed-on-the-ea</a> </p>

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<p>Narrated by <a href="https://type3.audio/?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Narrated+by+TYPE+III+AUDIO&utm_term=ea_forum&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TYPE III AUDIO</a>.</p>