Rule Update: AI Generated Content

[Petitioner]

Hasteruining

This is a deeply controversial issue online - especially in roleplay communities like this one, where the use of generated content is often seen as low effort, and demeaning of other player's contributions.

1.1.3 - Generating roleplay or posts through a prompt to AI writing tools is not allowed. These tools can be used to proof-read or edit a post you have written, but not to create roleplay wholesale. AI generated images must not be distracting or low quality, i.e. containing warped text, obviously incorrect human biology, or prominent generation artifacts.

We appreciate that many people are not confident in their English skills, and use AI to proofread or edit their posts. This rule does not impact that kind of use. The roleplay in those situations is still written by you, and continues to have your distinctive style and voice as an author.

What is not acceptable is outlining what you want in a prompt and having an AI generate the text for you. It is often very obvious when this has been done, as most large language models write in a very distinctive style and have particular "tells".

In cases where the origin of text is ambiguous, staff will err towards the benefit of the doubt. Despite that, clearly AI generated text will be removed going forward. Applications for SRPs or other rewards that rely on generated text will be refused immediately.

These are my questions @Haste I expect your answering to them

Q1: If a player rewrites 50% of an AI-drafted scene, is that “still AI-generated”?
Q2: How do staff make that determination technically — do they use tools, or is it just based on “feel”?
Q3: Are players with dyslexia, autism, non-native English fluency, or other limitations expected to write the same as fluent authors?
Q4: Isn’t this exclusionary to players who rely on AI to write creatively in English?
Q5: If I can use AI to edit a paragraph, but not write it, what is the actual difference if I still control the intent, plot, and character arc?
Q6: What about co-writing? Outlining? Brainstorming? At what point does “help” become “cheating”?
Q7: If the text “sounds AI-generated” but the user insists it’s theirs — what evidence is used?

A1: Yes.

A2: If you can't spot text that is blatantly AI-generated with next to no actual input from the player posting it, then it's either not AI-generated or you have a skill issue.

A3: No. Nobody is expected to write at the same level as anybody else, so long as the minimum expectation of "you're actually putting in your own best effort and the result is mostly intelligible" is meaningfully met. If you actually read the OP, you would have noticed that AI is explicitly permitted as an aid for players who struggle to write competent English for whatever reason. We have many dyslexic players, autistic players (I'm one of them), ESL players, players with other limitations, and players with various combinations of all these conditions. Some use AI in an assistive capacity and some do not. It is up to you whether you use AI to help you or not, but as a piece of personal advice, it is probably unwise for your personal development to lean on it so heavily that you fail to improve your own actual skill at writing.

A4: No. Writing and using AI as a tool to assist you for grammar and fluency is fine, as stated in the OP. Having ChatGPT barf out ten paragraphs of nonsense for you and putting zero effort in besides slotting it into your preferred bbcode is not a creative endeavour, and is what this new rule explicitly prohibits.

A5: If you use AI to edit your writing, to proofread your work, to ensure your syntax is correct and fully intelligible to natives, then it is still your writing, but if you have the entire post written by AI, then you have written nothing and exerted no effort. A roleplaying community necessarily entails creative effort on your part. See A4.

A6: If your own stories with no outside help editing or proofreading them have some grammatical and spelling mistakes here and there, and indicate only a moderate knowledge of English vocabulary, but after going to AI for help (or "help") your posts seem like they were written by Tolkien, there is probably a problem. If you need further clarification on this point, see A4 and A5.

A7: See A2.

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