On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 13:21 -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > I've been noticing a growing trend of blog posts written mostly, if not > entirely, with AI > (aka LLMs, ChatGPT, etc.). I'm not sure where to raise this issue. I > considered a blog post, > but this mailing list seemed a better forum to generate a discussion. > > The problem is two-fold as I see it. > > First, there is the issue of people trying to game the system by churning out > content that is not theirs [...] > > So this first problem is that it is polluting the Postgres blogs [...] > > The second problem is worse, in that LLMs are not merely gathering > information, but have > the ability to synthesize new conclusions and facts. In short, they can lie. > > Do we need a policy or a guideline for Planet Postgres? I don't know. It can > be a gray line. > Obviously spelling and grammar checking is quite okay, and making up random > GUCs is not, > but the middle bit is very hazy. (Human) thoughts welcome.
As someone who writes blogs and occasionally browses Planet Postgres, this has not struck me as a major problem. I just scrolled through it and nothing stood out to me - perhaps I am too naïve. There certainly are people who publish random short utterances, perhaps with the intention to hit the "top posters" list, but I don't think we need strong measures. If anything, I am most annoyed by articles that are just thinly veiled advertising, but there is already a policy controlling that. As long as there is not a flood of AI generated babble (and I cannot see one), I'd say that this will regulate itself: spewing empty content and lies is not going to reflect well on the author and his/her organization. PostgreSQL has excellent documentation. Anybody who blindly follows advice from a blog without checking with the documentation only has himself/herself to blame. Yours, Laurenz Albe
