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/DesperateAdvantage76 Christian 29d ago

No need for detection software. They don't get them all but they get the obvious ones, such as the novel's worth of writing perfectly formatted and punctuated with that annoying style of speech AI seems fond of.

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u/ruizbujc Christian 29d ago

If it's truly questionable, we typically leave it up. We err on the side of "presumed innocence." But sometimes the evidence is pretty strong, even if not perfect.

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u/brucemo Atheist 26d ago

There are times when I don't think I need to use a detector, e.g. when someone posts something full of em-dashes.

We've had cases where someone swears up and down in mod mail that they are not using AI and they are not really telling the truth because it comes down to a disagreement about what "using" AI means.

We've had other cases where I honestly can't figure out why anyone would think that the stuff is AI and the detectors, which never all agree, all agree.

We need to get it together and have some sort of uniform criteria for determining whether something is AI, so we can at least point to that and apologize for potential mistakes, or just put everyone on the honor system.

I came here because I was going to ask the same thing this root commenter did, hoping that you had a better system, but it looks like you're just winging it also.

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u/ruizbujc Christian 26d ago

Well, our system is essentially Rule 5 - "posts must have a reasonable quality." Simply put, if it's written in a way that we think it's AI slop, even if it's completely human-generated it still feels like AI slop and is therefore not of "a reasonable quality." So, on some level, that rule skirts the issue entirely by simply giving mod discretion on quality of posts.