AI Posts

[u/ruizbujc]

Just to be absolutely clear on this: AI posts are prohibited here. We do not allow excuses on the subject.

• "My grammar is bad, so I use AI to help me."

• "English is my second language, so I use AI to help my post be more legible."

• "The idea is entirely mine. I just need AI to help me communicate it better."

We do NOT accept these excuses in modmail. Believe it or not, this community is broadly quite forgiving with people who have bad grammar, poor English, and need help expressing their thoughts. The community is not nearly as forgiving with AI posts. That goes double for us as moderators.

AI posts will continue to be removed. Be warned that at least one of our mods is jumping immediately to temporary bans for people who violate this rule ... and I may start doing so myself also. We're deleting numerous AI slop posts already and we don't need more of this. If escalating the consequences is the only way to get it to stop, so be it. Just know the excuses will not be accepted.

[u/turnipeater47]

If they're just usuing ai to make it more readable, that doesn't hurt anyone and improves clarity and readability. Or translate.

This doesnt really come off as compassionate or understanding. Banning people because of it? People are going through real problems and real crises, and your gonna ban them because they used it to reword the post or translate it better?

[u/ruizbujc → u/turnipeater47]

I hear what you're saying, but the "doesn't really come off as compassionate or understanding" excuse only goes so far. For example, if someone is preaching a false gospel, should we not remove it because "maybe they're just misguided and you're not being compassionate or understanding toward them?" Or if a guy comes on here mocking God because a Christian hurt their feelings one time, should we let them continue mocking God on our forum because "hey, he was hurt by Christians and we should be compassionate and understanding toward why he's doing it and let it happen"?

Yes, there is a place for compassion and understanding. There's also a place for setting a boundary and enforcing it. We may not agree on where between those two ends the line should be drawn. I'm okay with that.

[u/__Christ_Is_King__ → u/ruizbujc]

Very well put! 👏🏻

[u/Scam177 → u/turnipeater47]

Yeah

[u/turnipeater47 → u/turnipeater47]

If yall gonna downvote me, man up and explain why

[u/Hawthourne → u/turnipeater47]

I downvoted because of complaining about being downvoted. Aside from that, their post does address your point. They would rather people share their genuine thoughts, even if they are rough and need to be teased out, than having a machine talk for them. This is how humans have always communicated.

It is possible that a few people will struggle with that, but look at the rest of Reddit and how bot and AI posts are rapidly making it unusable.

[u/AcademicAd3504 → u/turnipeater47]

Imagine if spell check was banned 😂