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, with AI > > (aka LLMs, ChatGPT, etc.). I'm not sure where to raise this issue. I > > considered a blog post, > > but this mailing list seemed a better forum to generate a discussion. > > > > [...] > > > > Do we need a policy or a guideline for Planet Postgres? I don't know. It > > can be a gray line. > > Obviously spelling and grammar checking is quite okay, and making up random > > GUCs is not, > > but the middle bit is very hazy. (Human) thoughts welcome. > > As someone who writes blogs and occasionally browses Planet Postgres, this > has not > struck me as a major problem. I just scrolled through it and nothing stood > out to > me - perhaps I am too naïve.
Seems like I *was* naïve - Álvaro has pointed me to a juicy example 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 counterfactual content. Stuff like "to improve performance, set fast_mode = on and restart the database". Yours, Laurenz Albe
