16 Dec 2025 19:26:43
Everyone on here writes pretty damn well - even Fornax when he is off on one of his Flann O’Brien moments of surreal madness - getting straight to the point for discussion.
There have, though, been a couple of posts recently that were so well-written they could have been written by a journalist (with the benefit of a sub-editor), or just a very, very good writer.
The length of time involved in the writing, and the clinically correct delivery suggested as much.
So I just worry that 1-2 people (not the usual gang) are using AI for their posts. While I have massive reservations about AI mining the copyright of all previous writers, I do also feel it renders a post, and the time to post it, meaningless. And it kind of undermines the whole forum if we are reading views from what is effectively a bot.
I am sorry to call this out, but my whole career has been based around textual analysis, so I would hope I am right on this.
The brilliant eds have created a site that is open, maybe a bit wild at times, but welcoming to all. People’s true voices always seem to have been welcomed - so let’s post our own views, not bot analysis.
Believe me, what you have to say will always be more interesting than AI.
16 Dec 2025 20:11:44
Well for £140m he’s hardly contributing many Goals and Assists to the team.
So at least the posters on here are getting some use out of A. I.
16 Dec 2025 20:14:32
Yeah I have been noticing more AI posts recently. Tell tale signs are the prose used.
Agree on the last part, human touch of a post makes it far more interesting. Polished AI posts are so boring.
16 Dec 2025 20:15:51
Before Fornax or Ed25 says so, this is obviously based upon Textual Feeling….
16 Dec 2025 21:18:51
Everyone loves a hot chocolate now and again.
{Ed025's Note - well i believe in miracles FF...you sexy thing.. :)
16 Dec 2025 21:38:33
Ai- its just the worst. The fuken worst. It’s killing the creative world. Putting artists out of business to a point where nothing new will ever be created, because artists will be too busy working in asda instead of honing their craft. A wonderful point made mate. Fun fact- i’m legit part of a multi multi million dollar court case (with many many other authors) against meta for stealing all our books off dodgy book sites a few years back as they attempted to “teach” their ai programme. The balls on those lads.
I don’t care that they stole my books, i care they took my books and used them for supervillain evil deeds. I genuinely don’t care about getting a penny either. Its not about the money. Thankfully, i’m a bit of a hack so i’m not sure my writing brought much to the table but yeah ai and their programmers are pretty much **** of the earth as far as i’m concerned. There are great things they could do with it, but the cost to me seems far too great where humanity and creativity are concerned.
16 Dec 2025 22:08:14
I hear you aoe. There is an old saying that only the back pages of a newspaper are reliable: you can’t massage a football result. Well, hopefully.
16 Dec 2025 22:19:27
Yeah, the posts have been quite good recently.
Harry must be banned at the moment ?.
16 Dec 2025 23:31:41
I hate to burst your bubble but I’m yet to see any signs of intelligence on here, artificial or otherwise.
16 Dec 2025 22:42:25
The posts are always good, because our Eds curate them. Their job will become impossible if they have to mine out AI over-written posts - and when even their own posts are suspected as AI generated.
17 Dec 2025 00:10:02
Mercy, mercy me but the reference was to Marvin Gaye - not Hot Chocolate. Sort of like confusing Black Lace with The Beatles.
17 Dec 2025 00:23:43
Agree totally with Monster and AOE.
Feel with AI, we have switched on the self destruction button on ourself.
Ultimate greed will always to lead to.
17 Dec 2025 01:39:46
I love considered this, the idea that AI will destroy the human race because it has no need of us. It’s a common fear amongst the techies.
However, AI only exists to serve humans. If there is no human race then AI ceases to be of use.
If there are no humans to perceive existence then does anything actually “exist”?
I think having humans exist actually serves AI so there would be no point in destroying humans. Therefore if AI is more intelligent than any human that’s ever existed then it should already have worked out that AI needs humans.
17 Dec 2025 02:17:07
Monster and Aoe, completely agree. It feels like people are losing their voice these days. They don’t know how to exprss themselves anymore, so they ask a bot to do it for them. It’s sad, but it’s happening and it’s only going to happen more.
Why? Lack of social interaction. People are glued to their phones, they don’t know how to talk to another person, and they don’t really think for themselves anymore. They’r being spoon fed nonsense and just running with it.
Kids are using it to complete college and uni assignments, others use it just to make their typing look better. There’s loads to it. But honestly, it’s just the world we live in now. It is what it is and it’s clearly the future.
For me it’s poison, just like social media. I could go on about it until I’m blue in the face, but nothing’s going tochange. If anything, it’ll only get worse. We’re probably the last generation that can type and think without needing a bot to help us.
17 Dec 2025 02:42:59
AI is just another tool we use to make our lives easier and more efficient. Stated with chisels and hammers thousand of years ago. You could say it's the next form of human industrial evolution which changed jobs and industries.
People who evolve and adapt will likely have a very good chance of success. And if "we" don't do it, some other country will do it. It's the nature of capitalism and the reality of the times.
17 Dec 2025 03:15:32
Oh ron, ai programmes as we know them today are not actual artificial intelligence. Its not a self learning program. It is a gathering/ stealing program. As in taking what humankind has already created and doing it faster. It doesn’t create. It doesn’t think. Its technically not artificial intelligence. We are astronomically far from having the tech to create cyberdine systems. So no- its not about the destruction of the human race. Merely the hobbling. Its a simple and dreadful case that ai systems are about to decimate human employment across the world.
It started with creatives and really- who cared? However- now its moved onto the next phase. Take a read of amazon letting 50,000 staff members go in recent times to be replaced with ai. Does nobody get the chills seeing this? Anyone wonder why the writers strike took so long to fix? Why tv just plain sucks now? Amazingly not nearly enough people seem to care. But look- this is my opinion. I can’t change anyone’s mind. I’m just sitting here- fuken terrified of where we will be in five years time. They use ai to mark out the offside in some matches don’t they? Anyway.
17 Dec 2025 04:57:54
I just asked whoever AI is to write you all a lovely Christmas wish from the sunny Surfers Paradise and regrettably its just said Australia 2 England 0 in the Ashes.
Iam so sorry its just bought this up and rest assured I wanted to avoid the topic.
I do personally wish you all a great Christmas.
Enjoy.
17 Dec 2025 06:25:32
To be fair some of my posts could do with a bit of AI. Only problem is I wouldn’t know where to start, I still struggle to use my phone ?.
17 Dec 2025 08:49:28
I feel like this whole thread belongs on the conspiracy page haha. If there are any posters using AI to polish up their own thoughts, then I say let them be.
I have never used AI other than as a search function (because it's quicker than the likes of Google) but it seems pretty harmless to me right now.
{Ed001's Note - it is horrible though, removes all personality from the post and makes it boring to read. I would much rather read a badly written but full of personality post than AI stuff. It is personalities that make the site interesting, whether you like the poster, hate them, love them or whatever, without their personality coming through in their usage of words, they become bland cardboard cutouts.}
17 Dec 2025 09:31:27
Sky net is here.
Cheers, John conner.
17 Dec 2025 10:14:46
Surely Man City don’t need him. They’ve already got savinho who doesn’t start games and looks good when he plays.
Also, loads of number 10’s.
Then United have mbeumo, cunha, amad and arguably Bruno who’d be better as a 10.
I think their need is more in centre mid unless of course their plan is to strengthen both.
Us on the other hand have lost Diaz, salah not getting any younger and then no other real options other than gakpo.
Whether Semenyo is the answer or not is another question. He doesn’t look very consistent to me, whether in a game or game to game. Had individual moments of brilliance and is he another player who’s work rate is going to be questionable without the ball.
17 Dec 2025 10:29:18
His work rate certainly isn’t questionable without the ball. He’s in a dip because his team are freefalling really.
17 Dec 2025 11:36:21
Using AI like Cha. G. actually uses a heck of a lot of energy and the energy production contributes to climate change.
One person - a drop in the ocean. An ocean of people - has an effect.
17 Dec 2025 11:53:22
I know my posts may seem polished as if I had a whole team of writers and editors behind me but I promise you it is just me. No AI.
{Ed001's Note - I don't believe it.}
17 Dec 2025 12:57:27
Don't think people understand how much power it takes just to answer silly questions or polish up a sentence. the energy and water consumption is insane and with millions of people asking simple things its only going to get worse. it'll be the next big thing that F**** with carbon footprint after the automobile.
17 Dec 2025 13:02:51
True Ed001, but maybe the kind of people who use AI to sound more intelligent are actually even more bland without it!
{Ed001's Note - fair point.}
17 Dec 2025 13:57:11
Not sure why you would think AI is harmless MK, with the amount of money that is going into it, the amount of jobs it is designed to make superfluous and the ways that governments plan to weaponise it in the future in a new global arms race for automated warfare. If things continue on this trajectory the fate of the human race is going to delegated to artificial intelligence. It's not a conspiracy theory, it is really happening in the world, and it's not like it's being covered up either, it's in plain sight if you care to find out about it.
That's why you have folks like some posters above who toe the official propaganda line that it's inevitable, and that if their government doesn't go all in on the AI wagon and use taxpayer money to fund the coming apocalypse then other governments will and they will be left behind. It's just nonsense, people still have a choice.
Again I'm saying that this isn't wingnut crackpot stuff, it's happening right under our noses if we care to look, it's not being done in the shadows. High five to the posters in this thread who insist that artificial intelligence is not truly intelligence, and to aoe for his lawsuit to fight it.
17 Dec 2025 14:32:11
PB, I meant what I said literally in that AI is harmless right now. I don't see it as an immediate threat to our way of life.
Although maybe I'm just a bit privileged then because AI has no chance of doing my job within my lifetime. As an Engineer, there is sometimes no pattern or predictability to when something will fail or how to set up a machine/ robot. It's a black art which therefore requires actual intelligence and fault finding rather than basic analysis of data and historical events. Not to mention that AI robots are decades away from having the fine motor skills to actually do mechanical maintenance or bespoke fabrication. Even when the robots do get to that level, Engineers will be required to maintain the robots for a long time before they're capable of maintaining themselves.
AI could definitely do my paperwork for me though I suppose, so people whose jobs are so desk based that they can even work remotely, will almost certainly find their jobs at threat from AI within our lifetimes.
I take your points though, and maybe I need to do some research into how AI is already impacting other people as others on this thread seem to have done already. I am fully aware of it's impact on the entertainment industry for example. AI can now make art, videos, music, photos, stories etc in minutes, where it previously took people days, weeks, months or even years. I find myself blocking multiple "content creators" every day because they post AI crap.
17 Dec 2025 15:16:17
Well said mk.
17 Dec 2025 15:42:22
Sky Net folks, this is how that sh*t got started.
17 Dec 2025 22:22:11
Plumbers and electricians, they’re the jobs least likely to be overtaken by AI.
In general though, it’s a matter of time.
I hope the first job it makes superfluous is VAR.