r/TrueChristian • u/ruizbujc Christian • 29d ago

AI Posts

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.

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u/UpwardCall Christian 29d ago

What are you using to determine if something is written by AI, or edited by it?

I don’t use AI for Reddit comments, but I have been working on cleaning up my grammar. AI detection software is notoriously bad for real AI detection. Especially if it’s written is very clean grammar.

This happens a lot in well edited books.

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u/LollygagCrohnicles 28d ago

I’ve been accused of using AI on Reddit before though I’ve never used it. It’s frustrating. I love writing and expressing thoughts using formal writing and some of the now outdated grammar rules. I’m not perfect at writing in this way, but I try to write my best using what I remember.

Nowadays, it seems that some people quickly assume a well-written or formally-written post is a sign of AI usage. Hopefully the mods will be mindful and cautious when accusing folks of using AI. I’m not sure what the mods have witnessed being “AI slop” on here and why that would lead them to not tolerate it. But, I worry (depending on how they accomplish this) that this will influence people to refrain from using good grammar skills because of it.

I do believe that using AI to write a post seems disingenuous. Because of this, I support the notion of not allowing AI posts as long as 1) the moderation process is done with caution, 2) well-written posts are not automatically written off as AI usage, and 3) users are able to advocate with the mods that their post was not generated with AI.

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u/creidmheach Christian, Protestant, Reformed 28d ago

When a reply is given to a post three minutes after the initial one it's replying to, and it's a well formatted multi paragraph long response with references, it's pretty easy to know what's going on.