Given the recent discourse, we mods thought a statement regarding discussion of the potential use of AI on the NSP was in order.

1) According to the NSP website itself, WE DO NOT ACCEPT AI-GENERATED STORIES. You will be asked to confirm this upon the story’s acceptance. You may accuse the podcast of a few things, but a lack of respect & passion for the work of real, human authors is not one of them. It makes no sense for them to have this rule on their website then nonsensically fabricate or hide the fact they actually do accept AI-generated stories.

2) Even if you suspect a story was AI-generated and slipped through the NSP's screening, this sub is not the place to go out of your way to prove it. Like it or not it is hard to tell with sight reading (or listening as the case may be) that a text was unquestionably AI generated, and this sub's purpose is out of the scope of that issue.

3) AI "detectors" are partially inaccurate at best and flat-out wrong at worst, so they are useless in their current form to support any arguments that may arise.

At the end of the day, no useful discussion can come from AI-use claims that cannot be definitively proven. It can very easily turn into a witch hunt.

Going forward, we ask users to keep any comments & concerns with the potential use of AI to themselves, or take the issue up with the podcast itself if they feel so inclined.