What's forum's position on using AI text generation?

Asking, because i wasn’t able to find anything about it.

I personally think, that although, seemingly less harmful AI text gen should be forbidden as well.

A few reasons why:

its still genAI which this forum has strict policies against.

AI assisted text tends to be more verbose and less clear at getting to the point, which makes communication frustrating.

Writing this, i also understand that’s its really hard to tell AI assisted text from actual human’s, but i think an attempt should be made.

There’s a wonderful Wikipedia article that talks about some ways one can point out if a text was written by AI.

As an example there’s some exurbs from the article:

Negative parallelisms

Parallel constructions involving “not”, “but”, or “however” such as “Not only … but …” or “It is not just about …, it’s …” are common in LLM writing in order to appear balanced and thoughtful

Overuse of em dashes

While human editors and writers often use em dashes (—), LLM output uses them more often than nonprofessional human-written text of the same genre, and uses them in places where humans are more likely to use commas, parentheses, colons, or (misused) hyphens (-). LLMs especially tend to use em dashes in a formulaic, pat way, often mimicking “punched up” sales-like writing by over-emphasizing clauses or parallelisms.[11][9]

This sign is most useful when taken in combination with other indicators, not by itself. It may be less common in newer AI text (late 2025 onwards); it has been claimed that OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 could use em dashes less often than its predecessors.

Here’s also a video, that imo more related to distinguishing AI in more common scenarios (and its easier to get thru as well LOL)

Although i despise AI writing i get that a lot of folks use it for well meaning purposes and it is hard to tell oftentimes what’s written by AI and what’s just a person being particular with the way they talk. In the end, i just wanna know tbh what your opinion on this is.

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I already posted about this in the past

but this should not be treated as an official statement by the mod team.

We already have a rule against AI generated content and an extra option to report and flag such content.

I don’t know if we already officially extended the rule to generated texts specifically but I don’t see why not. AI content is basically noise in the forum (and in general). Only exception we have for now is when it is used to simply translate from other language to English (or vice versa). However, we didn’t really discuss this yet as a standard in the moderator team and it more or less emerged by itself.

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Shocked that i somehow missed it entirely :x

But I’m glad to see, that i wasn’t the only one thinking about this!

I still wonder though, what would the official statement of the mods be, since rn we only have clear rules against image generation…