All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXIX

[Bob Schroeck]

Speaking of wiki policy, what is our policy on AI-generated text? ...
I'd be inclined to invoke our requirement for text to have a certain minimum level of grammar, but our Style Guide doesn't appear to have any such requirement.

We have such a requirement on the Trope Workshop Guidelines page:

Proper English grammar and usage: It doesn't matter if you hit all the other points above right on the head, if the trope candidate reads like it was written by Google Translate or a dyslexic ten-year-old (or both working together), it will not get launched. And although wiki admins have been known to step in and do their best to translate trope candidates from whatever they were written in to proper English, it is ''not'' their responsibility to do so -- it is that of the user(s) who want to see the trope candidate go live. If the description is so badly written a reader can't figure out what it means, and/or the examples are so garbled their relevance to the trope cannot even be guessed at, the article has failed at what it is supposed to do, which is communicate clearly and succinctly a pattern in storytelling.

I suggest we generalize this and put it in the Style Guide and other Page-Type Guidelines pages.

As for AI-generated text... well, for now I'd say deal with it on a case by case basis. We have rejected pages for being illiterate messes before, and that should be sufficient reason to nope out anything that looks like it was written by a travesty generator, regardless of whether it originated in a biological or silicon processor. For a more specific policy, we should propose it to the community after drafting it here.