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Detecting AI, and finding reasons for deletion by Community Bot

My question here is about a particular post, but I think this may be of interest in other similar cases. The post in question was titled Recurrence with square roots, and it was deleted by Community ...
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Should MO require users to register to combat AI content?

This is in response to a request from David Roberts from this Meta question: Has MO been reduced to an AI training service, and if so what should we do about it?. Should MathOverflow require users to ...
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Has MO been reduced to an AI training service, and if so what should we do about it?

I feel like MO is no longer really doing what we intended. When I look at a new question, rather than trying to help a person, I start thinking: is this a human? is the question really motivated, or ...
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How do I recognize an AI-generated question?

Apart from "being nonsense", how do I recognize an AI-generated question? Are there telltale signs? Could you post some examples, maybe as links to deleted questions?
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AI generated questions: a strange riddle?

So apparently now people are posting AI-generated questions (rather than answers). To me this makes no sense at all whatsoever -- why would anyone post a question to which neither they nor anybody ...
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Can/should we tell people that AI cut and paste answers are not welcome?

We now commonly see new users pop up and post a string of nonsense, AI-generated answers to a bunch of questions, before their accounts are eventually banned. In order to counteract this, could we ...
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Why is the site being flooded with junk right now? What is being done about it?

Right now the site is being flooded with posts from new users, with pseudonymous names, who use a mixture of obvious AI-generated nonsense mathematics and weird sentences (sometimes borderline ...
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Users using AI to write lots of answers

Recently, there are a lot of new pseudonymous users with a peculiar pattern of posts: only answers, no questions, in lots of widely differing areas of mathematics (where it is unlikely that one random ...
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OpenAI and MathOverflow?

The agreement between SO and OpenAI seems to have resulted some ill humour. Does MO plan to follow?
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ChatGPT strikes MathOverflow

The user (or a bot) https://mathoverflow.net/users/496085/canvas123 appears to be posting ChatGPT-generated text on MathOverflow. Two “answers” by this user already got accepted (!): When is a ...
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