Should AI-written posts be labeled?
Not sure if this is a wild take, but…
What if platforms like LinkedIn started labeling AI-written posts? Not to shame them.
Just to give people choice.
Some want clean, fast, optimized content. Others want messier, human, original stuff...
But when everything blends together, neither group really gets what they came for.
I don’t think we can or should avoid LLMs.
But I do think we need to preserve the thing that actually makes writing matter, which is our creativity and originality.
Thoughts?
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IXORD
If we're talking about product-related content, such as writing an article with the help of AI, then Google is unlikely to promote that content much because people are generally looking for something authentic. I believe it's fine to use AI for editing purposes. However, if an entire post or article is written by AI, it might be appropriate to label it with a [AI] tag. And it's true that readers should have the option to choose what type of content they want to consume
@ixord Love this take Igor and I agree. I'd love to know, how has AI impacted your writing?
IXORD
@chaosandcoffee It didn't really affect my creativity, because if I wrote articles or posts, I wrote them in my own words. Learning to write and speak correctly is also a good skill. I don't have much creativity because I'm a developer, but even in development I don't use AI.
@bengeekly Hahaha this is smart, and I guess it definitely makes sense in your use case. I guess I'm going to start using Tags now ;)
Even as someone that uses AI to help write my content, I love this sentiment. I think it might be a cool alternative to try the inverse, to try and highlight the messier, realer completely human content to try and get it more exposure and attention for that attribute. I don't know how you'd manage that though haha
@dheerajdotexe Totally Dheeraj, as someone whose loved reading and writing, I can't believe I'm saying this but I've grown to appreciate the messier content, It feels nicer to read and also feels nice knowing that it's not the same structured content coming out of the same machine. I think as we keep progressing in our space, and given some of the downsides we're starting to see(potential, eg MIT article about cognitive debt ) with respect to AI, people need to actively write more to preserve this valuable skill, and also know what's AI/what's not, to understand the difference.
People who want to intentionally use AI in a fraudulent way won't admit it anyway.
I admit it because I want to be transparent and honest with my followers.
@busmark_w_nika Nika I love this, and this is the way imo. Use it but also let people know that you are. I've personally started to use it a little less ( getting a little too dependent, haha)
But I'd love to know, Do you feel like your writing has gotten better or worse after using AI?
@chaosandcoffee I think that my writing is better in framing the answers or improving grammar, but I do not always use the suggested things. :)
ZapDigits
So most of the posts? :D
@malithmcrdev Hahaha Malith, I suppose so!
Songbox
i don't agree with this and here's why.
Do the order of the words matter? or is it the message thats being communicated that matters? if someone has an idea in their head and they use Ai to help them get it out then who cares? its still their idea; their sentiment.
For example this post you're reading now was generated by AI using my general idea as a prompt and then i refined it until i felt like it sounded authentic.
Or did i? maybe this is genuinely handwritten by me.
The point is... does it matter?
@mickc79 I appreciate your comment and fully understand your sentiment. Frankly, it doesn't matter, because ultimately words are words and AI does a fantastic job of taking rough ideas and making them into cleaner structured sentences.
Also, I have a feeling your comment wasn't AI, because i don't see em dashes ;)
I'd love to know. Do you feel like your writing has gotten better or worse using AI? or does it even matter?
Detection isn't as simple as it is made out to be. Plus, if users truly found out the amount of post written by AI, it would likely destroy certain social networks.
@matthewlls Would it? Because some people on this thread called out that it doesn't matter, I'd argue that even though people are slowly loosing the skill to write, they still can identify what's AI and what's not, it's just flagging these posts, and saying hey : You're still getting value from these posts, you can still engage but it's AI. I think that gives room for more creators to think, write and be original, have communities for that, and an opportunity for more people to tune into it.
Love your take though Matthew, how has AI impacted your writing?
@chaosandcoffee I think people finding out that many comments on social networks are written by AI would slowly deteriorate peoples' interest in them. The long AI-written educational posts are less of a concern, but more and more people are just regurgitating the same stuff and less editing for quality seems to be happening.
Personally, I'll use AI to help rewrite some of my content.
I dont agree it because it doesnt matter. Also, most of them have started using AI to polish the content. At the end of the day what matters most is the takeaway from the post.
@rameshkumar_astravueI appreciate your take, and makes sense, not going to deny by saying that I haven't used AI to refine my writing as well.
I agree that transparency could empower readers to choose what kind of content they want. But it seems on Instagram, labeling didn’t work out so well...
But what if I wrote something original, and then AI just helped me refine it?
Does that make it an AI-written post?
Or the other way around
what if the post was originally written by AI, but I heavily edited and shaped it afterward?
There seems to be a gray area between the two.
What do you think?