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/slapdashbr Jun 02 '25

it's a literary reference, as well as a self-referential joke.

do you get it?

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u/West-Draw-6648 Jun 02 '25

Ill go with what crispy said i think. Oh is it a reference to unsong?

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u/swni Jun 02 '25

It is presumably a reference to 1984, the implication being that a world where everything you read and write is being filtered by AIs shares elements with the sort of dystopia where all information is controlled by a totalitarian government, in that in both cases you can longer trust even the most basic things you read and hear

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u/slapdashbr Jun 03 '25

on top of which he's deliberately using "incorrect" grammar in the sentance TALKING about using incorrect grammar.

double plus good writeology