Thanks for facilitating this discussion; you've done a lovely job of summarizing the issue. I think you have adequately captured my opinion here:

Under our current policy, we don't need to ban such text merely because it comes from GenAI: we can reject it simply because it's low quality.

This was really the heart of our original "please don't" Meta post about computer-generated text. I consider it parallel to our policy on homework-like questions: we don't care whether the question is from an assignment, or from self-study, or just from curiosity. There is a class of questions which would make good homework problems, but which are a poor fit for our community, because the "answer" to the question is some boring number that's only relevant to a hypothetical situation.

Likewise, obvious chatbot output is a big red flag for low-quality content. I don't think we need special rules for special kinds of garbage; we don't tolerate low-quality content in general.

Note that the help page is editable by the moderators; we can include as much or as little nuisance as we decide is appropriate.

Thanks for facilitating this discussion; you've done a lovely job of summarizing the issue. I think you have adequately captured my opinion here:

Under our current policy, we don't need to ban such text merely because it comes from GenAI: we can reject it simply because it's low quality.

This was really the heart of our original "please don't" Meta post about computer-generated text. I consider it parallel to our policy on homework-like questions: we don't care whether the question is from an assignment, or from self-study, or just from curiosity. There is a class of questions which would make good homework problems, but which are a poor fit for our community, because the "answer" to the question is some boring number that's only relevant to a hypothetical situation.

Likewise, obvious chatbot output is a big red flag for low-quality content. I don't think we need special rules for special kinds of garbage; we don't tolerate low-quality content in general.

Note that the help page is editable by the moderators; we can include as much or as little nuance as we decide is appropriate. We could, for instance, clarify near the top of the guidance that, while chatbot outputs are permitted under the described restrictions, such output is strongly discouraged.