The problem seems more about a large volume of garbage answers.
From https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned :
"The volume of these answers (thousands) and the fact that the answers often require a detailed read by someone with at least some subject matter expertise in order to determine that the answer is actually bad has effectively swamped our volunteer-based quality curation infrastructure."
The current problem is the potential for a blizzard of garbage answers that overload the AskUbuntu cadre of great volunteers. That the answers are written by AI is interesting, but not the main problem. The blizzard is the problem.
The risk to this community is loss of credibility -- that noise drowns out signal and that AskUbuntu's reputation changes from "great gurus" to "garbage farm."
We face a potential flood of malicious vandalism. If that flood materializes, our Moderators will need help from us to spot and flag garbage, and to help identify key garbage posters.
When you identify a AI-written garbage answer:
- Downvote it.
- Flag it ('not an answer' for jibberish, or 'in need of moderator intervention' for flat-wrong or damaging).
- Click on the user and see if they are posting lots of similar garbage. If so, you just discovered a user that needs immediate action. Jump into chat [room TBD]chat and let the moderators know about that user.
Our goal should be to get these garbage-posters answer-banned --or perhaps completely user-banned-- and all their answers deleted. Rapidly!
It's up to the volunteer community to speed up the process and help the moderators by identifying obvious perpetrators.
It's up to the moderators to determine if their numbers are adequate to weather the storm (should it arrive), if their workflow to identify and handle garbage-posters rapidly is adequate, how they prefer communication of frequent-garbage-posters discovered by the community, and to communicate how else non-moderators can best help.