# LLM/‘AI’ Code of Conduct/Guidelines

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/llm-ai-code-of-conduct-guidelines/643146>\
**Category:** MetaBrainz\
**Tags:** ai, code-of-conduct, guidelines\
**Created:** [June 27, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/llm-ai-code-of-conduct-guidelines/643146 "2023-06-27T11:34:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![elomatreb](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/elomatreb/32/44009_2.png) [@elomatreb](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/elomatreb)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/llm-ai-code-of-conduct-guidelines/643146/3 "2023-06-27T14:52:32Z")

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> [@aerozol](#):
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> Do we address this in the Code of Conduct, or on a per-project basis (CB being the pressing one)

I think a site-wide code of conduct update is overdue in any case ([older thread](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/clarify-metabrainz-code-of-conduct/538626)), and would be the best place to address this (although reiterating it in the CB-specific rules doesn’t hurt).

> [@aerozol](#):
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> Which of the three options (in the meeting notes) do you think is appropriate

I think the “total ban” (option B) is the right choice. Even if marked with a disclaimer, LLM text has an air of unwavering confidence that makes it easy to overlook such a disclaimer. Additionally, a disclaimer does not prevent the text from being picked up by search engines (or even the local site search) and making their results useless.

> [@aerozol](#):
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> Do you have feedback on the wording of your preferred option

Some misc points from the lower notes:

- The semantics of the term “LLM” might not be perfect, but it’s certainly better than feeding the popular fiction of these tools being Artificially Intelligent
- I don’t think LLM-assisted writing is an inevitability, or certainly not to the scale some people think it will be. Once the current money-fueled hype wave dies down, more and more people will realize how dangerously incorrect these tools often are.
- Machine-translating text should not fall under these guidelines, it’s clearly a different intent (and people have managed to internalize a decent amount of distrust around something like Google Translates’s output).

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