AI use policy for my essay writing
There's been a recent call from @dynomight to declare whether and how you're using AI to write your essays. That seems reasonable, so here's my own policy for how I use AI in my blog:AI can help, but I’m the authorI use AI as an extensive aid for thinking, but retain primary authorship over my words. Unless I explicitly state otherwise, almost every sentence that's not explicitly a quote from an AI is written by me, not AI.The exception is that if I discuss a topic with an AI and it suggests a good point that I agree with, I may copy a sentence or two from it directly into the essay.
- ▪There's been a recent call from @dynomight to declare whether and how you're using AI to write your essays.
- ▪That seems reasonable, so here's my own policy for how I use AI in my blog:AI can help, but I’m the authorI use AI as an extensive aid for thinking, but retain primary authorship over my words.
- ▪Unless I explicitly state otherwise, almost every sentence that's not explicitly a quote from an AI is written by me, not AI.The exception is that if I discuss a topic with an AI and it suggests a good point that I agree with, I may copy a
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| Original publisher | Lesswrong |
| Canonical URL | https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tgigHkZoYrJEGe4tP/ai-use-policy-for-my-essay-writing |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:26:43 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T16:38:11.438Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T16:38:11.438Z |
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| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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There's been a recent call from @dynomight to declare whether and how you're using AI to write your essays. That seems reasonable, so here's my own policy for how I use AI in my blog:AI can help, but I’m the authorI use AI as an extensive aid for thinking, but retain primary authorship over my words. Unless I explicitly state otherwise, almost every sentence that's not explicitly a quote from an AI is written by me, not AI.The exception is that if I discuss a topic with an AI and it suggests a good point that I agree with, I may copy a sentence or two from it directly into the essay.
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