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Serial interface to a GE Solar 8000M/i patient monitor
@josborne wrote:
Ugh. Who is this “content cleaner” user? It’s just adding lots of text to old posts from 10 years ago. Is NI using AI bots on this forum?
It's maybe a bot maybe a person. It is going through the forum posts and detecting stale links and relinking them to the current location if it can find that.
I think you convolute two seperate things here:
@josborne wrote:
Ok. I am skeptical. Some of ContentCleaner’s other posts are overly wordy like AI generated garbage.
So far the posts I got a message about where all containing a link to some NI hosted pages that I assumed the Content Cleaner account was fixing. In several cases it concerned posts I had done in the past and there were no noticeable changes to what I think I wrote in the past. Can't vouch for letter to letter accuracy but the original meaning appeared to me clearly intact and in the style I could have written. Some of them were wordy, but I can tend to that sometimes, to the chagrin of some people in the past.
I have very little reason to believe that Content Cleaner is altering the actual post content other than fixing links and in a few incidental cases maybe remove an unacceptable word. The LabVIEW Champions did have a discussion in the past with NI web people about the state of affairs of the web site and aside from things like slow or unresponsive, one of the complaints was that NIs regular restructuring of the web site makes links often go stale. I believe the main complaint was about NI generated content here, but their solution they employed apparently also involves the forum. It sure is automated, no human in his right mind wants to browse through 10000s of pages and click on every link to test if it is still valid. But the actual link generation likely still involves some human interaction, as looking for the correct content to link to is not something that can be fully automated without creating quite some garbage.
@josborne wrote:
And I have noticed some other “users” on this forum lately that sound suspiciously like they aren’t human.
Yes we have some influx of likely bot generated posts. The typical pattern, aside of clearly spamming content, is that there is some text, often with content, that the source is hoping to create some controversy over. It is usually taken from Reddit, or some other such modern discussion board and placed verbatim in the forum, by a user account that has little or no other posts and in its naming with no resemblance to the account posting it on the other forum. Sometimes it is from a post a few months or even years ago and usually very critical or otherwise controversial and I take that as a clear sign of someone just trying to create some reactions. It escapes me what the purpose of that is, but a lot of what happens currently on the web (and in the world) escapes my reasoning.
Sometimes it is from a very recent post on the other forum. But it is almost always a word for word copy, and no mentioning of the fact hat it was posted elsewhere too. Which I consider at least rude and makes me always just ignore such posts.
There appear also some posts of accounts answering some questions or problems that are well worded in nice English but in its technical accuracy quite spongy and unclear or sometimes even just outright wrong. This is usually a sign of AI generated text too. I assume that it is from real people trying to be helpful but lacking the time, interest and effort to really investigate the problem and just feeding the problem into AI and copy its answer over into the forum hoping to be helpful or maybe also bumping their numbers.
