Hey folks! Just a quick message regarding some incidents happening in blogs.

First off, I understand - writing a good blog is hard, especially if you’re trying to get featured. However, please understand that the usage of such tools scrubs the internet for information, puts it all in a blender, hits frappe, and spits out some of the most generic, lazy and obvious piece of “work” known to man.

Thus, usage of AI counts as plagiarism which is very much a no-no around here, a place where creativity and originality are valued. It’s easy to tell when something is AI generated. Sentence structure, punctuation, etc are consistent with AI content as again, all it’s doing is spitting out information it collects randomly.

Consider the ethics of AI usage as well. You’re stealing other people’s hard work and claiming it as your own. Not exactly person of the year activity. Moreover, AI usage uses a lot of power, most of which comes from power plants utilizing the evaporation of fresh clean water, which is becoming very scarce in some parts of the world. The fumes from this process also contribute greatly to climate change, of which there is a global emergency to try and fix. The rise of AI only made the issue worse.

That being said; no one is in trouble, yet. Effective immediately, all AI usage in content like blogs or images, will NOT be allowed, will NOT be featured, and will be removed. Repeat offenders will have further consequences, but hopefully we will not get to that point.

On behalf of the admin team, thank you all for your cooperation and understanding.

-Aaron