I find that people are intentionally confusing the issue here. People aren't saying that AI is bad. Nor are they even saying that AI content should be banned.
What they are saying is that AI written posts in the main don't deserve rewards. Its as simple as that.
The reason?
That too is simple. People are not conducting research on a topic and feeding the AI data then using the outputs to write an engaging article. They are literally doing the what is pottery thing.
They never quote the source or mention in any way that AI was involved in the work they simply try to pass of the output as their own.
As someone who dedicates a lot of time to fighting abuse on this platform you are simply not seeing what we are seeing. Reams of chancers typing what is a blockchain or why is eating fish good for us and sitting back and expecting the rewards to roll in.
By all means, let these cunts do so and produce to their hearts' content but they should not expect any rewards for typing a prompt into an AI text generator.
If only people were using it in the utopian way that you think they can do.
But largely, they are not.
Maybe they aren't saying that out loud but I've seen some accounts that had AI-assisted posts and now every post they share, even ones completely written on their own are downvoted to zero, feels like getting banned I would say. Granted, I didn't research these cases although auto downvotes seem irresponsible.
I wouldn't even argue this. Although I'm curious. I've given this example to someone so I'll copy/paste it.
But let's say that someone makes a post with GPT saying "write me a post about legendary tennis players", and that post garners a shit ton of engagement with the person publishing post. Is that value? Should that be upvoted and encouraged?
I am aware of that, and thank you for doing it!
I guess this is where we are at. Low-effort content is now instead of copy/pasting someone's article and spinning their text around, telling AI to do it for them.
The biggest problem I see with most AI discussion posts is that it sounds like if AI is used it automatically suggests that the effort is not included.