“New EA Forum LLM-use policy” by Toby Tremlett🔹

About this episode

The episode discusses the new policy regarding the use of AI in writing posts on the EA Forum.

New policy: You are welcome to use AI to help you write posts, but we ask that you disclose it when you do. Not disclosing that your post is AI-assisted could mean a rate-limit or a ban.[1] We won’t enforce this policy for comments and quick takes, though we’d appreciate a norm of disclosure there as well. We are (and have been) moving more low quality or off-topic writing off of the Frontpage. Fully AI written text is (at time of writing) overwhelmingly likely to be one of these. More detail: Disclosure: If it is likely that there is substantial portions of AI-generated text[2] in your post at time of publishing, you must note this at the top of your post. You are not required to note if you used AI for research/ ideation. If you read a post which seems AI-generated, and you don’t see a disclosure — please report it. To help get you started, we added a button to our post editor that provides some example disclosure statements. Like so: If you’re unsure if your case applies, feel free to ask the Forum team before publishing. Removing content [...] --- Outline: (00:10) New policy: (00:43) More detail: (02:13) Reasoning: (04:16) Good and bad uses of LLMs (04:31) Examples of…

People in this episode

Host: EA Forum Team

Guest: Toby Tremlett

Topics covered

• AI policy
• Effective Altruism
• LLM usage
• content moderation
• disclosure norms

Keywords

• AI
• LLM
• policy
• disclosure
• Effective Altruism

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Organizations: EA Forum

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