What's the deal?

[Richard F.]

It seems like the largest percentage of new posts are by people with fewer than two dozen posts, and most of them are "curious" about pretty specific issues. Also noticing identical, or nearly identical, posts by different accounts, also with less than 10 total posts on either account. Some in same subforum, some in multiple subforums.

[Jaron Walling]

@Richard F. I joined the BP community in 2018 and have seen the evolution. The problem now is the huge influx of A.I generated content. It's plaguing social media at this point. Some people care and others just quit posting. It's not fun anymore. That what you described is just that in REI form. Anyone can copy/paste a valid REI question (market specific), prompt an A.I search, and then paste the answer making them look like a genius. It's extremely annoying.

There is no solution. A.I stuff is getting into everything. Microsoft CoPilot is getting shoved down our necks at my 9-5 job and nobody wanted it. The admins in BP can't keep up with the new profiles and questionable advice in the forums. There's no going back.