.."Not an answer", which is the actual problem here, rather than getting hung up on ai. If I had posted something similar to that deleted answer before chatgpt had been around, it would still have been an NAA. Advent of ai just made it easier to find somewhere to copy it from, but the real problem is still NAA

@JW0914 I agree that a random users determination of what is or isnt ai should not be used as a basis to judge an answer. That being said, this question has a now deleted answer that are just generic steps to solve a problem similar to what was asked (kind of like suggesting "have you tried turning it off an on?") but didnt actually focus on solving what was asked. While that answer was most likely generated by an ai (I could get 60% same answer pasting the question into chatgpt), I think this should be considered a different category of ...

I also agree with your point that "Moderators are not the community". I have had arguments in comments before with some people (not mods themselves by the way) who seem to think being mod or having very reputation makes you some kind of a better class of users than others.

Sorry to have to say this, but there's no point arguing with any semblance of logic in this case. Recently there's a mob of people throughout stackexchange that will down vote any post that even slightly supports leniency to anything generated by AI. Some people are pushing the narrative of "AI bad, ban AI", and will go around downvoting anything that doesn't support it. Even though your post clearly says "chatgpt based spam should be removed", since it doesn't say "anything chatgpt should be removed" the "ban AI" mob is going to come and downvote this.

people are too trigger happy about close votes. A question's closability should be based on how many views the question has and how old it is. Unless it's a dupe (or spam/incomprehensible, in which case it should probably be deleted), a question with less than 100 (or some other reasonable number of ) views should not be closable. How will anybody get answers if there haven't even been enough eyeballs on their question?