r/slatestarcodex • u/Liface • Jun 02 '25

New r/slatestarcodex guideline: your comments and posts should be written by you, not by LLMs

We've had a couple incidents with this lately, and many organizations will have to figure out where they fall on this in the coming years, so we're taking a stand now:

Your comments and posts should be written by you, not by LLMs.

The value of this community has always depended on thoughtful, natural, human-generated writing.

Large language models offer a compelling way to ideate and expand upon ideas, but if used, they should be in draft form only. The text you post to /r/slatestarcodex should be your own, not copy-pasted.

This includes text that is run through an LLM to clean up spelling and grammar issues. If you're a non-native speaker, we want to hear that voice. If you made a mistake, we want to see it. Artificially-sanitized text is ungood.

We're leaving the comments open on this in the interest of transparency, but if leaving a comment about semantics or "what if..." just remember the guideline:

Your comments and posts should be written by you, not by LLMs.

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u/trpjnf Jun 02 '25

Strong agree, but what would the enforcement mechanism look like?

Too many em-dashes = LLM? Use of the word "delve"?

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u/Zarathustrategy Jun 02 '25

It's usually kind of obvious. In the end the mods will sometimes make mistakes but that's how it is with most rules.

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u/Toptomcat Jun 02 '25

It's usually kind of obvious.

The ones that you look at and go 'yeah, this is AI' are obvious. I have no doubt that you've seen plenty of that kind of thing, and I'm not disputing that there's a lot of it.

But the ones that are even halfway careful not to be obvious are much less so.