The Floor
Should text written by an AI have to say that it was?
Almost everybody says yes until you ask them where the line is.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that a reader is owed whatever they need to weigh a text.
Runs while the room is still moving
1,348 people have taken a position.
Take a position and it opens — to you now, and to everybody when this closes.
The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- Disclosure changes how far readers trust the same textAlways
- No reliable detector exists to enforce a ruleNo, it is a tool like any other
- Publication is where the reader cannot askOnly when published
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
No closing date has been set. The floor closes it when the room has stopped moving.
What people said · 3
Every bubble carries the side its writer took.
Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Ana M.@ana_m· 6 Sept
Nobody labels a spellchecker, a calculator or a stock photograph. We are labelling unfamiliarity, not deception.
Yusuf E.@yusuf_e· 7 Sept
The point of a label is not that the tool is bad. It is that the reader gets to decide what it is worth.
Beatriz L.@beatriz_l· 10 Sept
If the label only applies to publication then every private use is exempt, which is most of it. Either the reader is owed it or they are not.
