[META] :: AI REDUX 2 — the increasingly common cheaters short cut
To the tune of Cafune - Tek It!
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If we as humans can tell someone used AI to "assist" their writing or critique, it's because something other than "just the grammar" is changing. This isn't just the formatting, this isn't because it leaves 'small artifacts'.
This is because most publicly available tools are giving you the same results in a formatted way that it gives to fully everyone else it gives their tools a try. Maybe it occasionally changes words, maybe it changes phrases and orders of syntax, and maybe it changes grammar. Is this utility a worthy trade off for writers? We argue no.
As of MAY 2026:
Just know, we have been very consistently banishing people for their use of A.I, any and all.
Believe it or not, I'm a huge AI apologist. I tried for nearly a full year to resist changing our policies. I tried to not eventually need a hard rule. I tried to be patient to see if the technology was workable.
It isn't.
A.I might occasionally elude our detection, or be so covert as to just pass as a normal editors job (for submitted writing). But just because we didn't notice it here THIS time, or with such small sample size, doesn't mean someone else (especially editors these days) won't notice it if you're dummy enough to try to publish with an AI EDITOR...
But for critiques especially it becomes flagrantly obvious quickly that someone did a rush AI job. If we can tell AI WROTE CRITIQUES, imagine what Ai is introducing into your writing if you're foolish enough to "just let it check grammar".
Clearly, it's not doing a good enough job. Where it holds utility, it is obviously not (affordably) and consistently servicing to do the job without detection. And this means that detection is possible. Yes, we've had several false positives recently, but this is easily dismissed when we adjust our enforcement window. It used to be we would barely ever get an AI user, but now it's much more common and readily known about as the future continues to adapt. We often check in with silent mod taps just to confirm human posting. One common line we hear these days is "used it for translation". Like hello? It's obviously not capable of doing this in a way that passes as human writing.... So just don't.
Obviously, the cheats, laziest fools, and folks who don't know any better aren't here reading our warnings. They're probably littering plastic into a river.
With this all said, please report SUSPECTED AI directly by mod mail, or by using the report flag on posts themselves, preferably with "custom" reply and typing why you think it's Ai.
Honesty? Some low tiers might occasionally sneak past our HUMAN FILTERS, but just know that they are ultimately hurting themselves.
Ai, as I said in my last redux, cannot replace a humans intuition. Be weary of false critiques that are generic, or obfuscate their generalities by quoting text that was copied into it. It might seem at first blush to be a compliment or heckle against YOUR writing when you receive a critique—but is this actually SOME PERSON who read it? Or is it just a person putting your work into A.I
Ai isn't capable of giving actual feedback: it cannot generalize, or specify. This means it can and only can output generic responses to specific elements. It cannot tell you why blue was wrong, or how the color makes it feel. It can only quote other people talking about blue, and then attempt to pretend that it understood that you painted and used blue. It doesn't understand the need for more red and yellow. It just has a random seed generating complex for yellow, and a weighted algorithm scanning for red. It does not understand the nuance of green, or the shades of gray. It can describe them well, but it can only give you binary feedback on black and white elements. It isn't actually reading or comprehending.
remember, everything you post publicly is subject to be copied and stolen. Mods can't enforce this, so just assume we don't care and think it's funny. I hope someone AI is deep trained on RDR Content and continues to improve. Maybe someday the editing will be worth using, and it can help assist our creative workshops, and even publications.
Until then, just use the report button and be glad it hasn't gone full skynet yet...