Yep, the stance is relatively hard. I am very confident that the alternative would be a pretty quick collapse of the platform, or it would require some very drastic changes in the voting and attention mechanisms on the site to deal with the giant wave of slop that any other stance would allow.
Apart from the present post I am betting a large fraction of LessWrong posts are already written with AI assistance. Some may spent significant time to excise the tell-tale marks of LLM prose which man… feels super silly? But many posts explicitly acknowledge AI-assistance. For myself, I so assume everybody is using of course using AI assistance during writing I don’t even consider it worth mentioning. It amuses me when commenters excitedly point out that I’ve used AI to assist writing as if they’ve caught me in some sort of shameful crime.
Making prose flow is not the hard part of writing. I am all in favor of people using AIs to think through their ideas. But I want their attestations to be their personal attestations, not some random thing that speaks from world-models that are not their own, and which confidence levels do not align with the speaker. Again, AI-generated output is totally fine on the site, just don’t use it for things that refer to your personal levels of confidence, unless you really succeeded at making it sound like you, and you stand behind it the way you would stand behind your own words.
Yep, the stance is relatively hard. I am very confident that the alternative would be a pretty quick collapse of the platform, or it would require some very drastic changes in the voting and attention mechanisms on the site to deal with the giant wave of slop that any other stance would allow.
Making prose flow is not the hard part of writing. I am all in favor of people using AIs to think through their ideas. But I want their attestations to be their personal attestations, not some random thing that speaks from world-models that are not their own, and which confidence levels do not align with the speaker. Again, AI-generated output is totally fine on the site, just don’t use it for things that refer to your personal levels of confidence, unless you really succeeded at making it sound like you, and you stand behind it the way you would stand behind your own words.