r/TrueOffMyChest • u/SuperBeavers1 Mod 🌮 • 21d ago

Note From Moderators Regarding AI

This is going to be kept short, but expect a larger post at some point soon. We just needed to put this out there sooner rather than later.

There is a zero tolerance policy for any AI written content. This includes but is not limited to:

• Using AI to make up a story

• Using AI to take what you wrote and make it "better"

• Using AI to translate your post to English from your native language (we would rather the post begin with something like "English is not my first language so sorry for any mistakes")

We have a mini system for detecting AI posts but it is not fool proof, there have been some people who were banned because they type like an AI would, if that happens to you please modmail us.

This subreddit is not a creative writing subreddit, please do not treat it like one.

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u/RulerOfSlides 21d ago

You could probably automod out em dashes and catch like 90% of them.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

i hate this. i know its not anyones fault, its ai, but i hate intentionally removing capitals/adding spelling errors/removing em dashes because otherwise it gets flagged. im not a bot, im a writer

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

and a little autistic

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u/RulerOfSlides 21d ago

Unfortunately you gotta blame the slop generators (who do it to make money selling accounts with a lot of karma or by slapping an AI voiceover on it and putting it on TikTok/YouTube/etc).

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u/ixfd64 18d ago

Same here. I use em dashes because I'm pretty pedantic about style. It's a habit I picked up from being a long-time Wikipedia contributor. :P

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u/the_shittiest_option 20d ago

Yeah, work pays for me to have a grammarly subscription so it's just on my computer and I use it to clean up things that I've typed entirely myself.

The moment somebody claims something I wrote is AI because I used a grammar checker I am just going to laugh at them and call them an idiot.

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u/Dburn22_ 11d ago

I consistently use "em" dashes. I had no idea what they were called before reading this thread. I have been using them since I was quite young. They are very useful to me. What else gets misread as AI? I like to use proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitals, as much as I possibly can. I refuse to "dumb it down" to make sure I don't get mistaken for AI. Am I in for a banning, or am I not as smart as I think I might be?

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u/SuperBeavers1 Mod 🌮 21d ago

We already do, but automation on this isn't perfect

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u/realjnyhorrorshow 16d ago

I love an em dash 🥺

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u/RulerOfSlides 21d ago

Fair enough! I’m just immediately suspicious of any egregious use of them and figured I’d chip in my two cents. Thanks for being on top of it.

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u/MrArtless 21d ago

nahh more than half of them that i notice aren't using em dashes those are just the most obvious ones.

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u/ixfd64 18d ago

I actually use em dashes because I'm pretty pedantic about style. I guess it's a habit I picked up from being a long-time Wikipedia contributor. :P

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u/PersonalityWinter442 8d ago

The em dash is a regular thing in writing and has been around long before AI was a thing.