It's crazy that people feel that they need to put such disclaimers

It makes sense to me. After seeing a bunch of AI slop, people started putting no AI buttons and disclaimers. Then some people using AI for little things wanted to clarify it wasn’t AI generated wholesale without falsely claiming AI wasn’t involved at all.

This comment was written by a human with no check by any automaton, but how will you check that?

Business emails, other comments here and there of a more throwaway or ephemeral nature - who cares if LLMs helped?

Personal blogs, essays, articles, creative writing, "serious work" - please tell us if LLMs were used, if they were, and to what extent. If I read a blog and it seems human and there's no mention of LLMs, I'd like to be able to safely assume it's a human who wrote it. Is that so much to ask?

That's exactly what a bot would say!

It’s more a claimer than a disclaimer. ;)

I'd probably call it "disclosure".

i dont find the need to have such a disclaimer at all.

If the content can stand on its own, then it is sufficient. If the content is slop, then why does it matter that it is an ai generated slop vs human generated slop?

The only reason anyone wants to know/have the disclaimer is if they cannot themselves discern the quality of the contents, and is using ai generation as a proxy for (bad) quality.

For the author it matters. To which degree do they want to be associated with the resulting text.

And I differentiate between "Matt Godbolt" who is an expert in some areas and in my experience careful about avoiding wrong information and an LLM which may produce additional depth, but may also make up things.

And well, "discern the quality of the contents" - I often read texts to learn new things. On new things I don't have enough knowledge to qualify the statements, but I may have experience with regards to the author or publisher.

and what do you do to make this differentiation if what you're reading is a scientific paper?

Same?

(Some researcher's names I know, some institutions published good reports in the past and that I take into consideration on how much I trust it ... and since I'm human I trust it more if it confirms my view and less if it challenges it or put in different words: there are many factors going into subjective trust)