Post removed from Forum; Why?

We had an interesting post this morning regarding a french free chatgpt service. Why was it removed?
Did it pose a threat? Was it spam or advertising?

We have a current discussion about AI revolution,

so why would that post be removed?

(I won’t post the link again here, otherwise my post would be flagged as spam and my account would be inaccessible.)

It was AI generated spam.

Appreciate your feedback. But how does one know?

I inspected the profile this morning, - it might be true that it was spam, but it was pretty and useful. So I suspect ulterior motives deleting that.

Blade Runner did not delete Rachel.

Best Jay

It was a first post, from a user just registered, posted very quickly, rather long, slightly out of context, with a lot of formatted content that was obviously written by an AI. It was flagged as spam by the automated spam detection, then checked by a moderator.

  1. Portland Labs have a policy of no AI generated posts. As a forum member I agree with that policy, but did not originate that policy.

  2. If the forum allowed AI spambots to post or human spammers to post AI generated content, the forum would soon be overrun with such and real humans would be stuck in a horrendously poor signal to noise ratio.

  3. Spammers have a motive. Not to educate, but to subtly (or blatantly) spread information (or misinformation) that suits their purpose. Ask yourself, why would a spammer use an AI to create an account and immediately post here?

If you would like info from an AI about a French chat GPT service, or about why Harrison Ford didn’t delete Rachel, you can ask an AI directly. You don’t need an AI to spam it on these forums.

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John, thank you for your precise and meaningful answer.

I wish I could check the “mintts” or “TOR IP’s” etc.

BTW: It was actually “Dexter” not Harrison Ford.