Can we dispense with the AI posts and just connect?

Can we dispense with the AI posts and just connect?

Lender · Tampa, FL · Member since 2013 · 2k+ posts · 2k+ votes

I feel the social is gone out of social media. I used to be a fan of BP and I really loved answering posts from people asking legitimate questions. I recently posted a rant when I saw a post that was obviously generated by AI, but then every response to that very post also had the tell tale markers of AI. It was just Claude talking to itself. For years I connected with wonderful people on the platform who wanted to learn and do business. Now, it's become an echo chamber where someone posts "the 5 ways you can" and "what are you seeing." Then, others paste that post in Gemini with the prompt "answer this response." That's not connecting and, frankly, it's ruined the platform. I'm hoping this trend ends, but I fear it will be the same as other platforms where realtors shoot videos of themselves in short skirts standing in front of someone else's listing. This is not a complaint...it's a plea. I would love it if we, at least when we're conversing, can go back to "analog". Now...let me run this through Copilot to clean up spelling and grammar (lol).

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Real Estate Broker · Northeast PA · Member since 2017 · 2k+ posts · 2k+ votes
3mo

@Doug Smith,

Thanks for putting this out there.  I'm afraid though, that it will just echo, echo, echo.  

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  • Real Estate Broker · Northeast PA · Member since 2017 · 2k+ posts · 2k+ votes
    3mo

    @Doug Smith,

    Thanks for putting this out there.  I'm afraid though, that it will just echo, echo, echo.  

  • Lender · Tampa, FL · Member since 2013 · 2k+ posts · 2k+ votes
    3mo

    It's really sad. Over the years I've connected with some good, real people on here, but now it's just silly bots and click-bait posts. I'll leave the page open, but until that changes I won't engage like I used to. It's nice to engage with a human (you are human, right? lol)

  • Chris SeveneyBusiness Member
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    Investor · VA · Member since 2015 · 21k+ posts · 19k+ votes
    3mo

    Please people please. 

    Here is my feed and all of these appear to be AI generated (same people it seems too) and to me these are not forum posts. 

    Now we can all talk about this, but what can we do? HERE IS THE ANSWER: click on the ... at the bottom of the post and click "Report Abuse" - this flags the moderators to remove the content.

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  • Inland Empire, CA · Member since 2017 · 151 posts · 79 votes
    3mo

    Smh drives me nuts when the comments is just AI responding with AI 😭 see it a ton on LinkedIn. On a positive note, I do think the people who avoid that will be able to build more, stronger relationships and trust. But yeah annoying.  

  • Investor · Charlotte, NC · Member since 2026 · 2 posts · 1 vote
    3mo

    Amen. Seems like an existential issue for BP that they should be addressing. I imagine no one will use the platform anymore if it's completely overrun by AI posts and AI comments. One potential solution is prevent/limit copy and pasted posts

  • Real Estate Consultant · Member since 2025 · 133 posts · 84 votes
    3mo

    I don’t think AI created this problem.

    I think AI exposed it.

    People didn’t suddenly start creating low-value content. They just became able to produce it much faster.

    As someone building in the AI space myself, I see it as a tool, not a substitute for experience. If someone has actually completed projects, managed renovations, lost money, solved problems, and uses AI to organize those lessons into a clearer post, I don’t see anything wrong with that.

    Most investors, contractors, and business owners are busy running projects, managing people, and solving problems all day. AI helps them communicate ideas they may never have had time to write down otherwise.

    For me, the real question isn’t whether AI wrote the post.

    The real question is whether the person behind it has any real experience to share in the first place.

    That’s where the difference is.

    When there’s real experience behind the content, AI is just a tool.

    When there isn’t, you end up with AI generating posts and AI generating replies.

  • Shiloh LundahlPro Member
    Rental Property Investor · Gilbert, AZ · Member since 2016 · 3k+ posts · 4k+ votes
    3mo

    Hey @Doug Smith. I'll connect. 

  • Don KonipolBusiness Member
    Investor · The Woodlands TX / Avon, CT · Member since 2009 · 6k+ posts · 10k+ votes
    3mo

    We have to look more closely at the “user stats” of the poster combined with the contents of the post.

    For someone with say 1,000 posts the probability is that their post is “real” whether it’s a question, answer, or just an observation.

    For people with few posts look closer.  Do they have the personal experience to render an answer or observation meaningful, or are they just pasting a AI response.  

    As for the BS initial posts, well those are obvious and stated above. 

    There is valuable information to be exchanged concerning real estate, finance, and wealth and valuable opinions to be expressed.  Don’t let the AI marketers undermine this. 

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    • Lender · Tampa, FL · Member since 2013 · 2k+ posts · 2k+ votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Don Konipol:

      We have to look more closely at the “user stats” of the poster combined with the contents of the post.

      For someone with say 1,000 posts the probability is that their post is “real” whether it’s a question, answer, or just an observation.

      For people with few posts look closer.  Do they have the personal experience to render an answer or observation meaningful, or are they just pasting a AI response.  

      As for the BS initial posts, well those are obvious and stated above. 

      There is valuable information to be exchanged concerning real estate, finance, and wealth and valuable opinions to be expressed.  Don’t let the AI marketers undermine this. 


       Totally agree. If they've had several posts and votes...like 6652 posts and 10,461 votes, then I'll go out on a limb and say they're probably legit, but it's insane how many 1 post, 0 vote there are with these detailed posts. I've resorted to heading to LinkedIn to look people up if they have a low post count before I comment. We all made our first post, so I don't want to have a bias against them, but the "sanity check", "em-dashes", bullet points, and other tell tale signs is getting out of control. I agree with you, Don. 

    • Chris SeveneyBusiness Member
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      Investor · VA · Member since 2015 · 21k+ posts · 19k+ votes
      3mo

      @Doug Smith I agree 100%. There were three posts I reviewed this morning that it was the person's first or second post discussing advanced real estate strategies and how they did X, Y, and Z. Of course, it was the typical AI format of starting with Y... Go on a lengthy discussion of three or four paragraphs, and then finish with a question to make it look like they're extremely knowledgeable but to try and gain others' insights. 

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    • Attorney · Northbrook, IL · Member since 2017 · 719 posts · 549 votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Chris Seveney:

      @Doug Smith I agree 100%. There were three posts I reviewed this morning that it was the person's first or second post discussing advanced real estate strategies and how they did X, Y, and Z. Of course, it was the typical AI format of starting with Y... Go on a lengthy discussion of three or four paragraphs, and then finish with a question to make it look like they're extremely knowledgeable but to try and gain others' insights. 

      I get a lot of emails with this format as well. The bot are trying to bait us into responding so it can gain all our knowledge. It doesn't really work for legal questions since everything typically starts with, 'it depends.'
  • Robin SimonBusiness Member
    Lender · Austin, TX · Member since 2022 · 5k+ posts · 4k+ votes
    3mo

    Agreed - its terrible, and cutting down the content here (bookstore used to be the centerpiece) and other stuff has just been such a bad choice and deterioration of things.  Seems like forums have just been killed by the combo of generic AI slop everywhere and any actual decent content overpoliced for "self promotion" - my 2 cents

  • Investor · Fort Washington, MD · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    3mo

    It's just how it is. BP is dead for the most part. I don't recommend it anymore. 

    • Don KonipolBusiness Member
      Investor · The Woodlands TX / Avon, CT · Member since 2009 · 6k+ posts · 10k+ votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Mark Cruse:

      It's just how it is. BP is dead for the most part. I don't recommend it anymore. 


      I HOPE you’re wrong about BP being dead, and a way can be found to “revitalize”, but I can’t totally disagree. 

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    • Investor · Fort Washington, MD · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Don Konipol:
      Quote from @Mark Cruse:

      It's just how it is. BP is dead for the most part. I don't recommend it anymore. 


      I HOPE you’re wrong about BP being dead, and a way can be found to “revitalize”, but I can’t totally disagree. 

       Well maybe not completely dead, but it's nowhere in the realm of anything it used to be. I used to always steer people here. It was a great asset with a wealth of information and hundreds of years of collective working knowledge. Now, AI posts all over the place, and many of the heavy hitters who made the place special have moved on. The topics tend to be very fake or silly looking, clearly introduced by a non-human. With no viable content or experienced people willing to be involved, it's no real use. I can't send people here knowing they will learn nothing. We've always had the fake me out newbies who post one vague or ridiculous question and never return for the result. Now, it's just them and AI. 

    • JD MartinBusiness Member
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      Rock Star Extraordinaire · Northeast, TN · Member since 2015 · 10k+ posts · 16k+ votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Mark Cruse:
      Quote from @Don Konipol:
      Quote from @Mark Cruse:

      It's just how it is. BP is dead for the most part. I don't recommend it anymore. 


      I HOPE you’re wrong about BP being dead, and a way can be found to “revitalize”, but I can’t totally disagree. 

       Well maybe not completely dead, but it's nowhere in the realm of anything it used to be. I used to always steer people here. It was a great asset with a wealth of information and hundreds of years of collective working knowledge. Now, AI posts all over the place, and many of the heavy hitters who made the place special have moved on. The topics tend to be very fake or silly looking, clearly introduced by a non-human. With no viable content or experienced people willing to be involved, it's no real use. I can't send people here knowing they will learn nothing. We've always had the fake me out newbies who post one vague or ridiculous question and never return for the result. Now, it's just them and AI. 


       You all are right on something I've been hollering about in the back rooms for at least a year, maybe longer. It's gotten bad but believe me we (moderators) are doing everything we can to fight it. Good (real) people can help as Chris mentioned by reporting posts and threads as you see them, so we don't have to hunt them down. Also, good posters like your all need to stay active here. If you throw in the towel then the ratio of robots to real people gets worse. Also, the less real people I know are here from the "old days" the harder it is to determine who is real and who is fake. I know Don and Mark are real because they've been here forever. Gregorius, not so much so I assume you are real but you could be a robot or real using AI to write your posts. 

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  • Chris SeveneyBusiness Member
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    Investor · VA · Member since 2015 · 21k+ posts · 19k+ votes
    3mo

    This would be controversial but charge people a monthly fee to be able to start a post. They can reply or comment for free like they can now but maybe to originate a post ? I am sure that would go over like a lead balloon and some would just comment with AI but atleast it would probably weed out bots 

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  • Real Estate Consultant · Member since 2025 · 133 posts · 84 votes
    3mo

    I don’t think the experts left. I think they moved into the comments. Most of the experienced operators in this thread are proving that point right now. The knowledge is still here. The pattern I keep seeing is that many experienced investors, developers, and contractors no longer spend time writing long posts, documenting projects, or publishing detailed case studies. But they still show up when an interesting discussion starts. Maybe the problem isn’t that the expertise disappeared. Maybe the expertise stopped publishing and started reacting. That’s a very different problem. And JD, for the record, my name is Georgii. Not Gregorius 😉

    • Robin SimonBusiness Member
      Lender · Austin, TX · Member since 2022 · 5k+ posts · 4k+ votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Georgii Grigoriants:

      I don’t think the experts left. I think they moved into the comments. Most of the experienced operators in this thread are proving that point right now. The knowledge is still here. The pattern I keep seeing is that many experienced investors, developers, and contractors no longer spend time writing long posts, documenting projects, or publishing detailed case studies. But they still show up when an interesting discussion starts. Maybe the problem isn’t that the expertise disappeared. Maybe the expertise stopped publishing and started reacting. That’s a very different problem. And JD, for the record, my name is Georgii. Not Gregorius 😉


       This is a great point - it gets down to WHY would "experienced investors, developers, and contractors no longer spend time writing long posts, documenting projects, or publishing detailed case studies" -- here, versus any of the other platforms out there -- facebook, substack, social media all sorts of other blogs and communities etc?  All these other places are still thriving with a balanced approach between adding value and "self-promoting" where people can share and offer advice but also make win-win connections that don't cross the line into spam.  Now, here on BP forums, you are just left with people that aren't going to put effort in here to just blindly share quality and detailed content with so harsh of a box -- you are left with AI Slop that takes 30 seconds to generate.

    • JD MartinBusiness Member
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      Rock Star Extraordinaire · Northeast, TN · Member since 2015 · 10k+ posts · 16k+ votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Georgii Grigoriants:

      I don’t think the experts left. I think they moved into the comments. Most of the experienced operators in this thread are proving that point right now. The knowledge is still here. The pattern I keep seeing is that many experienced investors, developers, and contractors no longer spend time writing long posts, documenting projects, or publishing detailed case studies. But they still show up when an interesting discussion starts. Maybe the problem isn’t that the expertise disappeared. Maybe the expertise stopped publishing and started reacting. That’s a very different problem. And JD, for the record, my name is Georgii. Not Gregorius 😉

      🤣 Sorry about that. I don't have a good memory and I was typing on the phone which isn't real conducive to going back and looking. But I'm glad you answered because that's a little more proof you're not a bot. 
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  • Investor · Sterling, VA · Member since 2026 · 89 posts · 48 votes
    3mo

    I think the issue isn’t AI itself, it’s when AI replaces experience.

    One of the things I always appreciated about BiggerPockets was that someone could ask a question about an eviction, a bad contractor, a financing problem, or a property manager issue, and you’d get answers from people who had actually lived through it. The value wasn’t the words—it was the scars behind the words.

    AI can summarize landlord-tenant law, calculate cap rates, or explain BRRRR. What it can't do is tell me what happened when you bought a duplex in Memphis in 2022, how you handled a tenant who stopped paying, or why you fired your third property manager. That's the stuff that creates real learning.

    Ironically, I use AI heavily in my business, but I think communities become stronger when AI helps people organize their thoughts rather than generate their experiences. If someone uses AI to improve grammar or structure, that’s one thing. If it’s AI writing the post and AI writing the replies, we’re basically watching software interview itself.

    The most valuable posts on BP have always been the messy, imperfect ones where someone says, “Here’s what happened to me. What would you do?” Those conversations are hard for AI to replicate because they’re rooted in actual experience.

    Hopefully the pendulum swings back toward that.

  • Member since 2026 · 2 posts · 0 votes
    3mo

    Absolutely agree. If I can tell a post is AI generated, I scroll past. Here to connect with real people. I may be brand to the platform, but I l9ve that this was one of the first posts I read.

  • Real Estate Consultant · Member since 2025 · 133 posts · 84 votes
    3mo

    I 100% agree with Robin Simon, and I think this goes a level beyond what he described.

    Why are platforms fighting the direction technology is already moving? Why are moderators trying to cut things off, restrict things, or draw lines around how people are allowed to participate?

    To me, this isn't really about AI.

    A while back, I saw a comment from Drew Sygit. It wasn't a detailed post. It was only a few words. But those few words pointed out something I hadn't considered, and if he had expanded that thought into a full post, I would have saved it to my personal knowledge library immediately.

    The reality is that most experienced investors don't write detailed posts every week. Many of the strongest contributors on BiggerPockets post only occasionally. Their knowledge often appears in short comments scattered across dozens of threads.

    That's exactly why I struggle with the idea of discouraging newer members from participating simply because they use AI to help organize their thoughts, improve grammar, or formulate a question more clearly.

    BiggerPockets has always been a knowledge library for real estate investors. The experts bring experience. Newer investors bring questions, activity, and discussion. Both are necessary.

    If someone has a real deal, a real problem, or a real question, does it really matter whether they spent thirty minutes writing it from scratch or used AI to help structure it? The value comes from the conversation that follows.

    What worries me is when platforms start creating more and more barriers to participation in the name of protecting authenticity.

    We've seen this happen before. Communities begin adding restrictions, verification requirements, participation hurdles, and eventually people stop engaging because it's no longer worth the effort.

    In 2021, one such platform was valued at $2.7 billion.

    In 2026, it was worth $0.83 billion.

    At that point, the platform isn't protecting the community anymore. It's shrinking it.

    If fewer people ask questions, fewer discussions start. If fewer discussions start, fewer experienced investors have opportunities to share what they know. Eventually the knowledge base stops growing.

    BiggerPockets became valuable because of the constant flow of questions, experiences, mistakes, lessons learned, and conversations between people at different stages of the journey.

    A knowledge library only works if new knowledge keeps getting added to it.

    That's what concerns me. Not AI itself, but the possibility of unintentionally making participation harder while expecting the community to keep growing.

    • Theresa HarrisPro Member
      Member since 2019 · 15k+ posts · 11k+ votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Georgii Grigoriants:

      ...A while back, I saw a comment from Drew Sygit. It wasn't a detailed post. It was only a few words. But those few words pointed out something I hadn't considered, and if he had expanded that thought into a full post, I would have saved it to my personal knowledge library immediately.

      The reality is that most experienced investors don't write detailed posts every week. Many of the strongest contributors on BiggerPockets post only occasionally. Their knowledge often appears in short comments scattered across dozens of threads.

      That's exactly why I struggle with the idea of discouraging newer members from participating simply because they use AI to help organize their thoughts, improve grammar, or formulate a question more clearly.

      ...

       If someone posts something and you want more info, reply to their post and ask questions.  Most people will give you more information.

      The problem with using AI, is it isn't to organize your thoughts, it is to generate some text (that often doesn't add any new information) and it is often really long-winded.  It is easy to ask a question and you don't need a full screen of text (normally) to give the details.

    • Real Estate Consultant · Member since 2025 · 133 posts · 84 votes
      3mo

      @Theresa Harris, genuine question:

      When you read my comment, what did you think the core argument was?

      Because I wasn’t talking about follow-up questions. I was talking about knowledge creation, participation, and the long-term growth of the knowledge base.

    • Drew SygitBusiness Member
      Property Manager · Royal Oak, MI · Member since 2012 · 12k+ posts · 9k+ votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Georgii Grigoriants:

      I 100% agree with Robin Simon, and I think this goes a level beyond what he described.

      Why are platforms fighting the direction technology is already moving? Why are moderators trying to cut things off, restrict things, or draw lines around how people are allowed to participate?

      To me, this isn't really about AI.

      A while back, I saw a comment from Drew Sygit. It wasn't a detailed post. It was only a few words. But those few words pointed out something I hadn't considered, and if he had expanded that thought into a full post, I would have saved it to my personal knowledge library immediately.

      The reality is that most experienced investors don't write detailed posts every week. Many of the strongest contributors on BiggerPockets post only occasionally. Their knowledge often appears in short comments scattered across dozens of threads.

      That's exactly why I struggle with the idea of discouraging newer members from participating simply because they use AI to help organize their thoughts, improve grammar, or formulate a question more clearly.

      BiggerPockets has always been a knowledge library for real estate investors. The experts bring experience. Newer investors bring questions, activity, and discussion. Both are necessary.

      If someone has a real deal, a real problem, or a real question, does it really matter whether they spent thirty minutes writing it from scratch or used AI to help structure it? The value comes from the conversation that follows.

      What worries me is when platforms start creating more and more barriers to participation in the name of protecting authenticity.

      We've seen this happen before. Communities begin adding restrictions, verification requirements, participation hurdles, and eventually people stop engaging because it's no longer worth the effort.

      In 2021, one such platform was valued at $2.7 billion.

      In 2026, it was worth $0.83 billion.

      At that point, the platform isn't protecting the community anymore. It's shrinking it.

      If fewer people ask questions, fewer discussions start. If fewer discussions start, fewer experienced investors have opportunities to share what they know. Eventually the knowledge base stops growing.

      BiggerPockets became valuable because of the constant flow of questions, experiences, mistakes, lessons learned, and conversations between people at different stages of the journey.

      A knowledge library only works if new knowledge keeps getting added to it.

      That's what concerns me. Not AI itself, but the possibility of unintentionally making participation harder while expecting the community to keep growing.


      Okay, you got me interested. What did I fail to give more details on please?

    • Real Estate Consultant · Member since 2025 · 133 posts · 84 votes
      3mo

      @Drew Sygit 

      It wasn’t the FHA 203(k) itself.

      What stuck with me was that everyone in the thread was discussing how to spend the $20,000, while you questioned the assumption behind the entire discussion.

      In a few words, you shifted the conversation from “How should I use the money?” to “Is there a better way to structure the deal so this isn’t even the right question?”

      That’s the kind of insight I think often gets lost in comment sections.

    • Drew SygitBusiness Member
      Property Manager · Royal Oak, MI · Member since 2012 · 12k+ posts · 9k+ votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Georgii Grigoriants:

      @Drew Sygit 

      It wasn't the FHA 203(k) itself.

      What stuck with me was that everyone in the thread was discussing how to spend the $20,000, while you questioned the assumption behind the entire discussion.

      In a few words, you shifted the conversation from “How should I use the money?” to “Is there a better way to structure the deal so this isn’t even the right question?”

      That’s the kind of insight I think often gets lost in comment sections.


      I do that a lot!

      DM me if you'd like more:)

  • Drew SygitBusiness Member
    Property Manager · Royal Oak, MI · Member since 2012 · 12k+ posts · 9k+ votes
    3mo

    BP is aware of this and trying to filter generic AI responses out.

    BTW: there are many posters asking members for "assistance" in developing their AI software they will then want to sell back to those same members.

    BOP is also trying to remove these posts and ban abusers.

  • Adam TafelBusiness Member
    Real Estate Agent · St. Paul, MN · Member since 2017 · 575 posts · 395 votes
    3mo

    AGREE. I think BP could hire someone for $4/hr overseas to manually delete all AI generated posts. It’s so obvious and absolutely will ruin this and many other platforms.

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    • Attorney · Northbrook, IL · Member since 2017 · 719 posts · 549 votes
      3mo
      Quote from @Adam Tafel:

      AGREE. I think BP could hire someone for $4/hr overseas to manually delete all AI generated posts. It’s so obvious and absolutely will ruin this and many other platforms.


       It's not just BP. I see the same thing on X, LinkedIn, and Reddit. The companies love it because the bots talk to other bots and create artificial traffic that drives up ad revenue. 

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