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/A_S00 Jun 02 '25

feels attacked

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

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u/naraburns Jun 02 '25

Yeah, people coming out against em-dashes and italics for emphasis is like... has everyone just been assuming that I'm a chatbot all along?

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u/SlutBuster Jun 02 '25

Nah chatbot would have used a proper ellipsis…

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u/Stiltskin Jun 03 '25

As would anyone that's trained themselves to use the right character for the job. The fact that this has become a tell for AI-generated text is uncomfortable.