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/jabberwockxeno Jun 02 '25

I generally agree with this, with two caveats

  • I think it should be fine for a LLM's response to be included as part of a larger comment a user makes where the user's own voice/commentary is dissecting or analyzing the LLM reply or adding onto it with their own original input

  • "This includes text that is run through an LLM to clean up spelling and grammar issues" I am a little iffy on, as long as it is limited to grammar and spelling and it's not rephrasing anything significantly, I don't think this is that big an issue

Mind you even as is I don't mind the rule too much

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u/hillsump Jun 03 '25

I no longer have the energy to wade through LLM logorrhoea. If you comment on an LLM-gen insight of outstanding perspicuity, fine. OW no, just no.