This is in context to our recent discussions on new topics posting and adding value instead of just copy pasting.
We’ve been working on something that might save us all some time when sharing interesting articles here. It’s called AutoForum - basically a tool that helps you quickly turn news articles and tech stories into proper forum posts.
Here’s how it works:
Paste in an article URL and the text
AI generates a summary, discussion points, and a custom image
You can add your own thoughts/opinion
Posts directly to the forum
Beta Access: Right now this is available for Trust Level 2+ members while we work out any bugs. If you’re interested in trying it, visit: TechEnclave .
Why we built this: We share a lot of interesting articles here, but sometimes the original headlines are clickbait-y or don’t capture what’s actually noteworthy for our community. This tool helps create better titles and summaries while letting you add your own take on why the story matters. Plus we wanted to get rid of straight copy paste articles that make TE look like a link farm.
A few notes:
It checks for duplicate URLs to avoid reposts
Generated content is just a starting point - edit it as needed
The AI costs add up, so access is controlled for now
All posts go through normal forum moderation
Try it out and let us know what you think. If it’s useful, we’ll expand access. If it’s terrible, well… we will improve it.
Questions, suggestions, or bug reports welcome below.
One suggestion - It would be better if you don’t award points to such posts, this might avoid people who are 24x7 dumping all news articles into the forum.
I can see you don’t know what the context is, even though I did mention it in the first post.
You cannot run away from AI, to what degree you use it depends on you. Reminds me of the Russel Peters joke on Asians, we will find you and we will..
As long as we are able to communicate and discuss ideas, news, concepts, it does not matter who is using AI and who is not. You don’t know that anyway.
As for this tool, it is better than simple copy pasting of the entire article. Do you use InShorts, what do you feel about that? Do you read news articles, they have AI summaries, what do you feel about that?
If you don’t like it, don’t use it. If you are offended by it, ignore the section.
The AI disguise just makes spam look cleaner. Ignoring it won’t help since it still clutters the feed for active/other users, and ppl will keep dumping posts as long as points are given. It’s better to address this low effort spamming rather than encourage such behavior.
Everyone has different expectations from TechEnclave. The forum has tools to help everyone to focus on what they want. It might be spam to you, I might find it useful news when I browse the forum. I don’t have to go around and find tech news articles to read. So why should your opinion be binding on me?
I see you’d rather encourage dumping spam. I never said we don’t need news, I also view such posts and engage happily. I only talked abt continuous random dump, there was already one post where several users talked abt the same issue. Now it seems ai loophole and awarding points is making that dump behavior legitimate.
Well you just made ur opinion binding for all isn’t it? Fine then, thanks for your suggestion abt ignoring, I’ll ignore the entire forum instead. It’s disheartening to see a place I valued turn this way.
I don’t mind seeing more news articles on TE itself. If the quality of the AI summaries is good, It would actually replace some of my existing sources of tech news.
However for others who are not keen on this, is it possible to automatically tag the articles posted via this tool? Discourse allows muting by tags. So users can mute that specific tag and still see other topics from the Community News section on their feed.