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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.50.4 (3.50.4-1.fc39) MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk I wrote: > On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 13:21 -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > I've been noticing a growing trend of blog posts written mostly, if not= entirely,=C2=A0with AI > > (aka LLMs, ChatGPT, etc.). I'm not sure where to raise this issue.=C2= =A0I considered a blog post, > > but this mailing list seemed a better forum to=C2=A0generate a discussi= on. > > > > [...] > >=20 > > Do we need a policy or a guideline for Planet Postgres? I don't know.= =C2=A0It can be a gray line. > > Obviously spelling and grammar checking is quite okay,=C2=A0and making = up random GUCs is not, > > but the middle bit is very hazy. (Human) thoughts welcome. >=20 > As someone who writes blogs and occasionally browses Planet Postgres, thi= s has not > struck me as a major problem. I just scrolled through it and nothing sto= od out to > me - perhaps I am too na=C3=AFve. Seems like I *was* na=C3=AFve - =C3=81lvaro has pointed me to a juicy examp= le off-list. Still, I wouldn't make a policy specifically against AI generated content. = That is hard to prove, and it misses the core of the problem. The real problem is = low-level, counterfactual content, be it generated by an AI or not. Perhaps there could be a way to report misleading, bad content and a policy= that says that you can be banned if you repeatedly write grossly misleading and count= erfactual content. Stuff like "to improve performance, set fast_mode =3D on and rest= art the database". Yours, Laurenz Albe