Evening Askers!
Following on from https://reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1m9cq92/should_raskuk_allow_people_to_use_ai_to_answer/ we’ve made our 10th Rule!!! I can almost feel the excitement – quoar rule updates, yeeeeeerrrrrr boiiiis…
The Rule:
No AI generated questions or answers
AskUK is a place for real answers to real questions. While we will permit the use of language cleanup and grammar adjustments via AI, anybody we suspect that is using AI to automate/generate their answers or questions will likely see their post or comment removed and be banned. It is often better to see sub-optimal text than it is generated text.
If you think your text is evidentially AI but this is appropriate, make it clear you are doing so.
Do note the minor exception at the end there – we realise people are sometimes using it for good reason. But this can be quite jarring to those of us with keener eyes, so please just be upfront about it.
Also, we have added a report reason to help people highlight the use of AI to us, we’re hoping people will use this responsibly, and not just for people they disagree with. Giving guidance like this a once over – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing. AskUK is a helpful space, please don’t just go around spouting “bot” like this is your first time outside your schools chromebook :).
Our hope is that helps us maintain a genuine human space that people find real value in, enjoy, and continue to want to participate in, keeping our community together!
Thank you all for help and feedback.
Comments
Viva la revolution! Eat my shorts, clankers
Perfectly sensible update. One thing just to be wary of – quite often people with autism get accused of being AI, because their tone mismatches the discussion, their writing comes across as overly formal/neutral, or humour/nuance has flown straight over their head.
Doesn’t mean the rule change isn’t necessary, but more something for you as mods to keep in mind when judging posts.
Thankyou for this
I’m so sick of “Google AI says:” being in half the posts on Reddit, as though the OP couldn’t have just done that themselves. It’s the dumbest thing ever
Good job, mods! Always remember – when somebody asks a question, they’re asking YOU, not ChatGPT or Google AI or Grok or any of the other LLMs out there. Utilise your own brain.
Our AI overlords aren’t going to like this.
See, an em dash! Report an M—dash!
Doesn’t AI get like 70% of its information from Reddit anyway? The snake is eating its own tail!
I won’t delve into details but this is difficult to identify
Good.
If we wanted to know what ChatGPT thought we can ask it myself. We don’t need someone else parroting it here.
I fully support this!
Thank fuck, though it’s not stopping the AI scrapers from scooping up all our answers and churning them out elsewhere :/
I like this implementation. I sometimes use ai as cleanup (dyslexia means my writing can be all over the place) but I tend not to old reddit as highly enough to bother. Ai is also useful for folks with ESL or other communication hindrances.
Really the only issue is folks posting what chatGPT told them as if eveyone else can’t ask chat gpt if that’s what they want to hear from.
oh god… I’m a writer… I use em dashes all the fucking time don’t eat me plssss 🥺🤣
I absolutely agree with this, some posts are outright obviously AI (though not seen many here to be fair).
I will say though, don’t be all militant in banning people. It’s not always possible to be certain someone’s using AI and even as someone who’s very keen on the ban, it’s not fair to ban people accidentally assumed to be AI.
This seems something that is hard to police?
Excellent update. This isn’t just a new rule — it’s the dawn of a new age for this subreddit!
Let me know if there’s anything else I can do to help!
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