Origin tag
When an output could be mistaken for something a person made, or the reverse, tag it clearly: AI-generated, rule-based, or human, so people know what they're looking at.
Relevant principles
What the research says
Provenance (origin) information shapes trust and appropriate doubt about media, but simple "AI-generated" labels can backfire and reduce perceived credibility (the "transparency dilemma"), and trust in a label varies significantly by its design. 1
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Lost dog near the park! Biscuit, brown terrier. £100 reward, message me. Photos: bit.ly/biscuit-lost
Three things took this post down: a list, a guess and a judgement. What you should do about it depends on which one you mean, and one of the three cannot be argued with at all. Pick what you want to do and I will tell you where it goes.
- The link matched a blocklist14:19RuleEvery link shortener is on that list, because they hide where they go. Any post carrying one is hidden on posting, with nothing read.
- A classifier scored the words14:19AI0.82 against the scams policy, which acts at 0.80. A reward and “message me” is how scams read. It reads words and nothing else.
- M. Okafor upheld it14:20PersonRead the post and the thread under it at 14:20, agreed with the flag, and signed the notice. One of two hundred and forty today.