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[+] -23 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Blanket AI bans are becoming the new slop.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    is this a blanket ai ban though?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    From the policy in the PR:

    The policy's guidelines are roughly as follows:

    It's fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to create.

    LLMs work best when used as a tool to write better, not faster.

    We carve out a space for "experimentation" to inform future revisions to this policy.

    So... No, it isn't.

    Note that there are times when using a LLM to create code is allowed. Reading the doc explains the nuance.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Agreed, but hopefully they're being used more for "Let's pause for now while we figure out a good way to filter out true AI-Code-Kiddies slop from actual programmers using it as a proper tool" rather than perm bans

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Actual programmers using it as a proper tool should produce output indistinguishable from actual programmers not using it at all. That there even is (often) a visible distinction is a big part of the problem.

    Notably, it even explicitly says in the proposal that it shouldn't require any policing. Instead, obvious cases are more important.

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