Mine got flagged twice in one day.
Both essays generated more engagement than anything else I've published here. One had a five-exchange technical comment thread building a production architecture on top of it. The other had an AI podcast episode generated from it before it even published.
The founder of DEV.to liked one of them before the bot flagged it.
I'm not here to argue about the policy. The guidelines are reasonable. AI disclosure is fair. I added the disclaimers and moved on.
But I want to know if this is just me.
If Sloan has flagged you recently, drop a comment. Three things I'm curious about:
- What kind of article was it — tutorial, opinion, essay?
- Did you use AI assistance, and if so how much?
- Did you think the flag was fair?
I want to know if there's a pattern or if I got unlucky twice in one day.
Top comments (2)
Didn't even know Sloan existed! LOL 🤣
But then again, other than some grammar checks, I don't post AI generated text, and often I don't even grammar check with AI.
I do post some AI generated banner images, but those aren't flagged here, AFAIK.
That said, I don't care if a post is AI generated or not, as long as it's good.
Still, the AI disclaimer requirement is understandable.
People have the right to know if it's another human on the other end.
Ha, lucky you . Sloan's been busy on my end specifically. Good data point tho: you write regularly, mostly skip AI assistance and never been flagged. That's the baseline I was missing. Makes me wonder if it's less about AI use and more about how the writing reads structurally which is the uncomfortable possibility I keep landing on.