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Is it a gentlemens agreement, or do you actually enforce this somehow? What stops anyone from prompting "copy my writing style, use less words, make some small typos and gramma inefficiences
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That’s what I am doing. My writing is horrible and i produce much better results when i take AI output as starting point. But I do much more than adding typos (never) and grammar inefficiencies.

Try flipping it, that's what I do. I usually prompt AI for research, absorb thta, write my own thing, and then ask AI to proofread it and I'll let it fix small grammatical errors and typos, while larger structural suggestions I'll still implement myself. It doesn't take much more time in my experience and I'm infinitely more satisfied with my output.

Doesn’t work for me. I am reasonably ok editing an existing document but I have total writer’s block when I have to write from scratch.

It's expected to call out people (usually in DMs) when they post AI generated stuff. Occasionally people will link to a claude doc as like an "additional details here" type note, but that's the extent of it.

It's entirely possible that people have just finely tuned AI to perfectly mimic them, but if it passes the Turing test, I guess I have nothing to complain about. Our rules are less about some fundamental opposition to AI and more that it's just annoying to read unedited AI slop.




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