Rule Update: AI Generated Content

[Luke.]

This is in principle a good idea, as long as it doesn't lead to witch hunts. Stamping out the really low quality AI slop is not something anyone sensible is ever going to object to.

Provided that's the only thing the staff polices under this new rule then I think we've taken a step in the right direction. Otherwise, and if it goes too far into technicalities, then I wouldn't trust the staff team to properly enforce the rules. You'll end up with way too many false positives. I feel like this might benefit from being an advisory rather than a rule in that case. You can still trash glaringly obvious AI posts, but you're not putting every single post through a verification process (more AI lmao) because that's just a ton of work.

As with anything added to the rules these days, my only concern is going to be enforcement. Especially after the fiasco of the fair pvp rule enforcement, at least in its early stages. I have more to say on that subject but this isn't the thread for it. Suffice to say that I hope this doesn't get used to justify careless scrutiny.

As the post states, we will give benefit of the doubt where possible. We've no intent of going full Gestapo on people's writing.

Discovery has gone 15+ years without AI slop, we firmly believe people can write without it, even if they think they can't. Imperfections alone demonstrate human touch, and we don't want to punish people that just want to make it look or read better, only those that care so little for authentic work that they'll not even try to do it themself.

The difference for now, is quite easy to tell. Some in the thread seem to think we're using detectors for it but that's not really true. Simply reading is enough a lot of the time and that in itself is a telltale sign of AI generation. We're not going to read so deep as to try and find every use, or use tools that will give false positives. Stepping into paranoia territory isn't productive.

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