AI (Artificial Intelligence) is the hot item now. A great deal of progress has been made over these recent years in making AI more efficient and accurate. It can create art, write articles, do medical procedures and many other tasks that used to be just seen in movies or read in sci-fi and horror books.
With all of the progress made, the question is, should you use it for your community? Should you use artificial users to create the illusion of an active site? Should you use AI to write content for your site? Is a site with AI members actually a community?
For a social community, members tend to want transparency. If you decide to create a site with AI members, it’s best to let your real members know that they could be interacting with artificial members. Some may not mind, but others may not appreciate being in a community that’s composed of real and fake users.
AI can be fine in a community where the members accept having them on it. A few things to consider if adding AI or AI generated content:
As AI technology advances, it becomes increasingly difficult to answer this question. The fear is that AI will take over and there won’t be a place for humans in work environments and online. Due to that, perhaps sites that keep it simple and limit AI will be the ones that people flock to.
This article was 100% written by a human.
With all of the progress made, the question is, should you use it for your community? Should you use artificial users to create the illusion of an active site? Should you use AI to write content for your site? Is a site with AI members actually a community?
For a social community, members tend to want transparency. If you decide to create a site with AI members, it’s best to let your real members know that they could be interacting with artificial members. Some may not mind, but others may not appreciate being in a community that’s composed of real and fake users.
AI can be fine in a community where the members accept having them on it. A few things to consider if adding AI or AI generated content:
- AI members should clearly be presented as such. For example, perhaps name them with AI in their user name. Such as AI-Sally.
- AI content should contain some sort of notification that it’s been generated by AI.
- Any AI generated content should be vetted. Ensure that errors have not been made and that you are not spreading false information.
As AI technology advances, it becomes increasingly difficult to answer this question. The fear is that AI will take over and there won’t be a place for humans in work environments and online. Due to that, perhaps sites that keep it simple and limit AI will be the ones that people flock to.
This article was 100% written by a human.
