"Because it wasn't ..."

Not so. Posting links is not the same. If you were to copy+paste someone's blog post into the forum and post is as your own, without attribution, it would be seen as plagiarism. Everyone understands this; you're trying to pass another's work as your own.

On X there's actually a good modern equivalent to "posting links" which is @grok, and letting Grok add to the thread. There is occasional teasing but it's nothing like posting slop under your own name.

ChatGPT actually allows something like this; you can share a link to the conversation.

Everyone is free to do this, instead of using ChatGPT as a ghostwriter.

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BeetleB an hour ago | parent [-]

So I take it you'll be fine with responses that begin with:

"ChatGPT says ... "?

> Everyone is free to do this, instead of using ChatGPT as a ghostwriter.

I guess the bulk of folks use ChatGPT as the preferred chatbot, but people like me have a completely different interface that doesn't use ChatGPT. I can't send someone links to my conversation.

(And as an aside, over 80% of ChatGPT conversation links I click on don't work - not sure if they clean them after some time, or I need to be logged in, etc).

And even if it did work, I really don't want to read the whole conversation. Just send me the relevant part that ChatGPT said!

	▲	thatjoeoverthr 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		"ChatGPT says" can be annoying but it's unequivocally better than passing ChatGPT off as yourself. Quoting it for convenience ("the relevant part") --- ok, great. Does it look lazy? Well, if you respond _as its sockpuppet_ you look like a hustler, too.