<p>The use of AI is already ubiquitous. Examples are spelling control or language improvement and programs that help searching for resources (e.g. Google search).</p>
<p>It seems to me that it is not relevant <em>whether</em> AI is used, and instead it is more about <em>how</em> it is used and <em>what result</em> comes out of it.</p>
<p>Example of a bad case: If you get questions/answers from a language model (which is currently far from being good at logic and able to answer substantively; it can create a related language for some given content, but it can not create the content itself, at least not when it is complex), and if they are posted unedited without care, then</p>
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<li><p><em>what result:</em> you might get an increase in nonsense responses*. Nonsense will be moderated in any case. Whether it is human created or AI.</p>
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<li><p><em>how:</em> you might get people answering questions without appropriately crediting resources. I am not sure how to credit an AI language model and whether this is possible at all. At least one might give information that the answer has been obtained with the help of some AI, (not if this is for correcting spelling, but yes if the AI created an important amount of the answer), but there are potentially original resources that are not credited. The novel language models that harvest all of the internet do not provide a good way to credit original resources.</p>
<p>I guess that, untill AI is able to appropriately credit resources, it is better to restrict the use of AI to trivial tasks (like correcting language) and not use it for creating publications/articles/answers/questions that tap into the intellectual property without crediting it.</p>
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<p>But just as well as the bad stuff, you might also get good uses. I have found that chatGPT is able to improve my French writing by a lot (and probably it would do well with my English as well) and it is also good at correcting the tone of my texts. For people that are not great writers, a language model can be a good thing to improve their writing. Would you publish an article without having others check your writing? If no, then why not also use AI to help improve writing?</p>
<p>On the website here we regularly see problems with text in the form of images, equations that are poorly written and not in latex, or English that is at a low level.</p>
<p>From the point of view of the quality of the website it would not be bad to get this improved with AI. (From other points of view one might critise humans in using too easily some tools without improving themselves, but that is another discussion)</p>
