My AI content policy
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People intuitively understand that calculators are convenient, but there's also a risk of losing mental math skills if you rely on them. Similarly, using AI tools for text generation poses dangers for writers- what's the point if you're trying to write and an AI is doing it instead? What's your role then?
AI can obviously support and encourage writers. I also recognize its potential dangers - like overwhelming the internet with slop- junk that neither informs nor entertains.
However, I'm concerned about disappearing resources like Stack Overflow becoming inaccessible just because more advanced tools are available. If we're using AI-generated content responsibly, it can be a valuable tool for tidying up and simplifying writing tasks. I code a lot (for now!), and regularly encounter ideas and tricks that I could share, but the effort involved in polishing it up for publication stops me from doing so. I plan to leverage the ease of AI to help with that. There's also this idea that there's lots buried in the latent space - that the AI models know a lot of this stuff, from the way they've been trained on e.g. stack overflow content, but as we head towards a dead internet, a lot of the good resources will have disappeared. I don't want to add to this problem. To that end, I will do my best to sanity check everything. I don't want to be adding junk to the world
To ensure readers understand when I've used AI assistance, I'll include clear disclaimers at the top of all articles where possible. In cases like technical write-ups or simple explanations, I might rely more heavily on an AI tool to help with organization and coherence. However, for more complex topics like the future of humanity, I will do everything beyond spellchecking manually.
This policy may be revised as needed, but my goal is to set a transparent standard for using AI-generated content in this context. Your feedback welcome!