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Yes, clarification on this would be good. Philippe's post above suggests that this is merely about how mods are enforcing bans on AI-generated content, but the way it's been handled leaves me wondering whether SO's real beef is with the very existence of those bans. If that's not the case, SO could probably take at least some of the heat out of this by publicly stating that they support the AI bans and discussing what their proposed plan is for enforcing them.

G_B
– G_B

2023-06-06 05:30:52 +00:00
Commented Jun 6, 2023 at 5:30
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SO mods have already noted explicitly to staff that the primary reason we've been jumping straight to suspensions for users who post AI-generated content is because staff told us to shortly after ChatGPT was released for public use. We also have already indicated, repeatedly, that we'd be more than willing to stop issuing suspensions for this and instead simply give warnings. In fact, many of us (like yours truly) had been suggesting this already (despite arguably going against staff guidance) because we'd noticed that a large number of people apparently didn't know of the ban.

Cody Gray
– Cody Gray

2023-06-06 11:16:03 +00:00
Commented Jun 6, 2023 at 11:16
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@CodyGray-onstrike that makes this situation 10-fold more infuriating in my mind. Having seen (mostly on smaller, non-SO sites), some "heavy" suspensions for apparent first time offences, I figured SE was panicking about some overzealous mod behaviour and this was a (bungled as usual) attempt to pull things back. To hear that was their own policy is mindboggling.

mbrig
– mbrig

2023-06-07 20:34:27 +00:00
Commented Jun 7, 2023 at 20:34

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