General Discussion

I did not say that non-AI sources can't ever be wrong, even when they're usually correct and have a long and deserved reputation for reliability. But if a DUer checks those usually reliable sources for information and quotes and links to them, they're providing much more useful information than if they quote a chatbot that might provide a completely different answer the next time it's prompted.

Hallucinations are a very real danger. I've seen a lot of AI hallucinatiins offering very dangerous advice, and you've probably seen news stories about those. Hallucinations can happen at any time with LLMs, even if they're trained on accurate information, and if it gets published, online or off, it can get quoted and spread further. That's often described as pollution of our information ecosystem, and it's a serious problem.



That's a separate danger from AI, which I've posted a number of messages about on DU and other platforms.



Again, a separate danger from AI, and one I've posted about.



The definition of fraud includes but is not limited to criminal fraud, and it does not require depriving another person of something.

Fraud is trickery or deception. Period. It can be done to deprive someone else of something. It can also mean deception to gain something. Sometimes it can be so habitual there's little or no conscious intent behind it.

I used that word because in a society with so much deception by AI, we're dealing with a very serious problem.

On a message board, people expect what's posted by someone to be a message from them, unless it's in quotation marks, in which case the source of the quotation should be given. Unless it's a common saying that can't be attributed to anyone.

If someone posts simple information in response to a question, like the translation of a word or a location of some upcoming event, they may or may not have looked it up, and they may or may not give the source. If I need to do some quick googling to answer a question, I'll usually say that I googled it. I used to say "Google is your friend" but Google is doing so much harm now with its AI that it's no longer a friend.



Yes, it is, unless you've told the person you're writing to that you are using AI in email.



Whether or not it is depends on the image and what you say when you post it.

If you're posting it in a subreddit for AI art, fake art, and everyone would assume it's AI-generated, then it isn't fraud.

If it's posted anywhere else and it's photorealistic and it might trick anyone seeing it into thinking it's a real photo, then it's fraud unless you disclose when you post it that it is AI.

If you post an AI image that isn't photorealistic and you simply say "I did this" or "This is my artwork" then IMO that is fraud, because you did not create that image. An AI did. You might've given it a prompt, but anyone who's ever used gen AI knows it can offer a wide selection of responses from any prompt. You might have spent a lot of time discarding images the AI offered until it finally gave you one you liked, and you might have edited or tweaked it in various ways, but if you just say it's yours, you'd be leading a lot of people to believe it really is your creation, whether digital art or a photo of nondigital visual art like a painting or sketch. And that would be fraud.