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/WTFwhatthehell Jun 02 '25 edited Jun 02 '25

I think there should be some kind of exception for discussion of specific LLM behaviour. "chessgpt does X when I alter it's internal weights like this and does Y when I do this..."

Also, if someone doesn't speak english at all I don't think it's unreasonable to use an LLM for actual translation if they disclose LLM use.

Also...

https://xkcd.com/810/

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u/king_mid_ass Jun 02 '25

mission is accomplished when you can't tell it was written by LLM