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waclawek.jan
Super User
March 3, 2025
Question

What's it with highlighting things in bold lately?

  • March 3, 2025
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I couldn't help noticing that many posts lately have keywords and/or whole phrases highlighted in bold typeface. This is an entirely new phenomenon, I don't remember seeing this previously, or at least not in such conspicuous proportion.

Can please somebody enlighten me, why?

Maybe it's not a bad thing, I can't decide yet.

Thanks,

JW

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Andrew Neil
Super User
March 3, 2025

This, for example?

I'm not sure it's entirely new, but certainly the prevalence has greatly increased.

No idea why - shame people can't similarly learn to use the code formatting ...

 

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Tesla DeLorean
Guru
March 3, 2025

>> shame people can't similarly learn to use the code formatting ...

Or communicate useful detail for problem diagnosis..

It's not just here, so perhaps via AI chat or translation. I find it visually distracting.

https://portal.u-blox.com/s/question/0D5Oj00000msUwuKAE/local-logging-of-relative-position-data-in-moving-base-rtk-setup-section-222

https://portal.u-blox.com/s/question/0D5Oj00000mPXtWKAW/im-trying-to-moving-baseline-rtk-using-two-c099f9p

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Andrew Neil
Super User
March 3, 2025

@Tesla DeLorean wrote:

>> shame people can't similarly learn to use the code formatting ...

Or communicate useful detail for problem diagnosis..


Indeed.

I've also noticed an increase in the number of posts with a great many words, often with many headings & sub-headings, yet conveying very little useful information.

 

It does, indeed, smell of AI.

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raptorhal2
Lead
March 3, 2025

I use bold for submitter text extracted that I am responding to.

Andrew Neil
Super User
March 3, 2025
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
Lina_DABASINSKAITE
Community Manager
March 4, 2025

Hello @waclawek.jan, all

Thanks to brining this to our attention. We will definitely observe this new behavior.
Whenever you feel the content is predominantly alerted by AI, feel free to report it to our review. 

For reference: Why predominantly AI-generated posts and replies on the ST Community are not allowed

 
Thanks a lot,
Lina
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waclawek.jan
Super User
March 4, 2025

Hi @Lina_DABASINSKAITE ,

I don't think it's AI-generated. As @Andrew Neil and @Tesla DeLorean have discussed above, it's more like AI *translated* and/or - and more importantly - doctored.

In itself it's not harmful, it just unnecessarily dilutes the post and may attract false attention to unimportant items, although the posters probably think otherwise.

JW

 

TDK
Super User
March 4, 2025

I've noticed this as well. Given the fairly high number of nonnative English users on the forum, I assume it's some sort of rewriting of input from ChatGPT. Many of these follow the same bullet point structure. Honestly, seems better than the "X doesn't work, why?" types of posts.

I've also noticed a much larger proportion of register-only code coming from users (example) where the code is unnaturally well-commented using /* comments */. I suspect the same thing. ChatGPT spits something out, doesn't work, user posts it here.

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