We made a statement about this in 2023, but it bears repeating for the newer crowd of regulars who haven't seen it.
DON'T copy AI-generated content into your answer on this site. That includes:
- Copying the question into a chatbot and pasting its reply
- Browser extensions that write directly into the answer box
- The AI overview created by search engines (ex: Google)
I remind you of this rule:
#0.4. Use your own words. Don't mass copy-paste from other websites. You may include quotes, but make sure you reference them and include your own writing. When reasonable, avoid posting links as answers.
Answers you receive on this site should be pertinent and accurate, supported by manual research or the experience of a real person. AI-generated content doesn't meet this quality standard.
An answer you find on this site should have value-add compared to Google or ChatGPT, even when the question is simple. Our answers should be clearer, more concise, more reliable, and more transparent than other platforms.
Further to that, a question that does require expert advice to answer certainly cannot be done justice by 12 year olds copy-pasting work that was generated for them and that anybody else could similarly generate.
You are allowed to use AI to guide your research or give you pointers for how to answer the question. However, you can't copy-paste AI answers and pass it off as your own, and I would strongly caution against rewording an AI answer without doing your own research.
In the domain of video games, LLMs are trained mostly using online content (and in the case of Google's AI overview, it is trained specifically to use only the search results that you yourself can access). If you can't find the answer by doing your own research online, then AI is unlikely to know better than you. Think critically, and if you know truthfully that you aren't expert on the matter, then leave the question for somebody else to answer.
