Following the recent discussions around LLM-generated content (so-called “AI”), the forum rules and categories have been amended.
Changes to the forum guidelines
New paragraph under the “Post Only Your Own Stuff” section:
Don’t post content generated by large language models (“LLMs”) or similar tools. These enable people to post long, seemingly well-thought-out texts, practically without expending any actual thought or doing any research. This burdens our users and developers to either try and debunk what’s wrong, or accept that people searching the forums could find it undisputed and will be misinformed.
The paragraph in “Improve the Discussion” that previously mentioned LLMs has been edited (mostly to remove the redundancy with the new paragraph):
Assume people have done basic research before turning to the forum. Posting easy-to-find search results or
theoutputofalargelanguagemodel(socalled“AI”)easy-to-generate content is not helpful.,Evenmoresoespecially if youtrytopassitoffashave no commentary of your ownreplyon it.
New category: “Software → Proprietary & Other”
The new category’s description reads:
For discussion of proprietary (closed-source), LLM-generated, and other software.
Recent threads on LLM-generated/assisted software have been moved into this category already. Going forward, any software that contains LLM-generated content should be discussed in here only.
The category is listed for all users by default, but deprioritized in search results, and with an automatic 10-minute “slow mode”. Any users who want to ignore any threads in this category (or any other category), which will prevent them from showing up on your “Latest” feed (the default homepage), can do so for themselves by following these steps:
- Go to the category’s page.
- In the upper-right corner (below your user icon), click the button that has an icon of a bell on it.
- Select “Muted”.