u/Watchful1

We're making some rule changes to address a couple consistent problems in posting/commenting behavior on the subreddit. Every post will be removed unless the poster meets the following requirements.

• Have a user flair. You can set your user flair in the sidebar or ... menu on mobile.
• Disclose whether and how they used AI when writing their post. This will be done by commenting on a bot comment that will be added to every post.
• Have a small amount of subreddit karma. This means everyone will have to comment in other posts before they can post themselves.
• Interact in their own posts. Posts will be removed if the OP never replies to other people in the comments (the AI disclosure comment doesn't count).

We will consider also applying the user flair restrictions to comments as well, but we won't include that to start. The exact limits on subreddit karma and what counts as interactions are fairly low and we'll tweak them as we go.

The intent of these changes are to promote discussion by users actually invested in the subreddit and reduce the drive by posts from people not looking for a discussion, or promoting something.

All of these will be automatically enforced by a bot which we will turn on next weekend.

As LLM's get more and more realistic, it's harder to tell when a post was generated, edited or translated by one. We've seen lots of complaining when people think something is LLM generated, so we wanted to a centralized place to discuss the communities opinion on how we should handle them.

Simply banning them isn't an option, even today it would be hard to effectively enforce a rule like that, and in another 6 months it will be all but impossible. My idea was to require disclosure of tool use. Make people put a tag like [no ai used], [ai assistance], [ai generated] in the text or title of the post. But that has it limitations too.

Any better ideas? How does your company handle LLM generated text, not just code, in documentation or messaging?

To be clear, this is only about humans using LLM's to write their ideas. If a bot is blindly posting LLM over and over it's usually easier to detect and ban.