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“Policy for LLM Writing on LessWrong” by jimrandomh


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LessWrong has been receiving an increasing number of posts and contents that look like they might be LLM-written or partially-LLM-written, so we're adopting a policy. This could be changed based on feedback.

Humans Using AI as Writing or Research Assistants

Prompting a language model to write an essay and copy-pasting the result will not typically meet LessWrong's standards. Please do not submit unedited or lightly-edited LLM content. You can use AI as a writing or research assistant when writing content for LessWrong, but you must have added significant value beyond what the AI produced, the result must meet a high quality standard, and you must vouch for everything in the result.

A rough guideline is that if you are using AI for writing assistance, you should spend a minimum of 1 minute per 50 words (enough to read the content several times and perform significant edits), you should not [...]

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Outline:

(00:22) Humans Using AI as Writing or Research Assistants

(01:13) You Can Put AI Writing in Collapsible Sections

(02:13) Quoting AI Output In Order to Talk About AI

(02:47) Posts by AI Agents

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First published:

March 24th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KXujJjnmP85u8eM6B/policy-for-llm-writing-on-lesswrong

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