Hi everyone! Long time, no chat

[Dani]

Hi everyone! Long time, no chat. I know I've been gone from here for a long time now. My health has been pretty poor. I've been very, very drowsy and it's been difficult to sit in front of the computer screen. However, I've been in a lot less pain (aka more drugged up than ever), so that's a very good thing. I'm hoping to be able to spend more time around here soon. I'm going to try to do my best.

In the meantime, I'm quite frustrated by how much AI-generated content I'm seeing. I'm doing my best to delete the blatant AI content when I see it, but it's also hard to always tell, and I like to err not on the side of not taking action now and then asking questions later.

[hex20dec]

Hi everyone! Long time, no chat. I know I've been gone from here for a long time now. My health has been pretty poor. I've been very, very drowsy and it's been difficult to sit in front of the computer screen. However, I've been in a lot less pain (aka more drugged up than ever), so that's a very good thing. I'm hoping to be able to spend more time around here soon. I'm going to try to do my best.

In the meantime, I'm quite frustrated by how much AI-generated content I'm seeing. I'm doing my best to delete the blatant AI content when I see it, but it's also hard to always tell, and I like to err not on the side of not taking action now and then asking questions later.

:( Sad to hear you're not doing well. Wishing you ample health asap!!

In regards to AI. AI is unavoidable. Even Google is not penalizing it as much as it did in the beginning.

So not sure what you're deleting or not, but overall welcoming it in some way might make things easier.

[Dani]

Google has definitely turned around from initially saying that AI-generated content won't be indexed, to seeing value in AI-generated content. However, just because there is value in AI (e.g. we embrace it here in the form of "Dani AI") doesn't mean that it has a place within posts of a community forum meant for people to engage with people.

The content we tend to see and delete most often are mostly people copying/pasting AI-generated long-form content as posts pretending to be experts in topics they are not experts in, or as a means of spamming promotional links.

[Niss melodious]

Life has a way of getting busy, and sometimes we step away without even realizing it. But it’s genuinely nice to be back here and reconnect with you all again. I’ve missed this space, and I’m looking forward to catching up, sharing updates, and [hearing] what’s been going on in your lives too , something comforting about familiar voices and shared moments, even after time apart. I’m looking forward to catching up, hearing your updates, and slowly getting back into the flow of things here.