I'm generally okay with calling out AI posts but it has to be really clear and obvious. Especially in a niche topic forum like this. AI slop farms hunting for page views have little incentive to post in such a low-traffic forum. Plus we know our revered TSB overlord BMonkey is a legit retro enthusiast.
As someone else mentioned, AI proofing for non-native English speakers is a thing which can be necessary. If you're, say, a native Farsi speaker who's super into vintage retro computing, you probably don't have a lot of Farsi-language options (and if you are a Farsi-speaker, I'd love a post on 70s/80s computers in Persia - and I won't mind if it's AI-assisted). Here on TSB, I'd say even if it clearly looks AI written, it needs to also be inaccurate, trite or off-point to be called out. Your previous AI call out was spot on, this one... not so much.
Grok. ChatGPT and now Gemini say. No. LinkedIn is legit. Maybe helped by LLM. Sure. As an ESL I use LLMs to help my writing. When I drop articles or use idioms incorrectly I’m not helping our community. My Quebec keyboard often leads to humours tags that must make our site overlord do a facepalm.
As someone else mentioned, AI proofing for non-native English speakers is a thing which can be necessary. If you're, say, a native Farsi speaker who's super into vintage retro computing, you probably don't have a lot of Farsi-language options (and if you are a Farsi-speaker, I'd love a post on 70s/80s computers in Persia - and I won't mind if it's AI-assisted). Here on TSB, I'd say even if it clearly looks AI written, it needs to also be inaccurate, trite or off-point to be called out. Your previous AI call out was spot on, this one... not so much.