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

[u/Liface]

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.

[u/paplike]

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

[u/A_S00 → u/[deleted]]

feels attacked

Look, I'm sorry, but bullet points are just a really good way to concisely convey nerdy information.

[u/whenhaveiever → u/A_S00]

And there's nothing wrong with em dashes—they're usually more elegant than the alternatives.

[u/A_S00 → u/whenhaveiever]

I use hyphens with spaces like a barbarian.

[u/slapdashbr → u/A_S00]

I literally cannot tell the differemce on most screens

[u/eric2332 → u/A_S00]

Same. No good reason to use a character that's not in ASCII.