In my opinion, it simply comes down to clarity for the reader.

If AI is used within a post, the author should be explicit and state this - in the same way that one would reference an image or text to avoid accusations of plagiarism.

If AI is used to enter a contest (or learning challenge), this becomes even more important.

I suppose that each community’s guidelines are down to the specific communities. In my afternoon rampage, one author had “AI Free” in their post assessment for every AI generated article they’d shared - hence the trigger for this post.

Much of the discussion element has likely been discussed on Steemit before (@remlaps prompted an interesting discussion about whether organisations need cheaters). I don’t think there’s been much discussion about how to spot and prevent such behaviour though, other than automated tools (which appear to be unreliable).

I’m not one for softening things 😉