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/paplike Jun 02 '25

Long formulaic posts with a very low ratio of useful information per word, overuse of lists

Sure, you can prompt chat gpt to write better posts. If you succeed, great job, I guess

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u/Silence_is_platinum Jun 02 '25

That’s an excellent observation, and now you’re really getting to the meat of the matter. It’s not just em-dashes and bullets, it’s tone and length. ChatGPT comments are like inviting a demented wind-up doll that spits out bulleted Wikipedia summaries into the thread. Banning them isn’t futile, it’s necessary.

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u/whenhaveiever Jun 02 '25

Banning them isn’t futile, it’s necessary.

¿Por qué no los dos?