<h4>Thanks to all the moderators --- your great work is appreciated</h4>
<p>I'm not a moderator, and I have only a thin knowledge of this controversy, based on reading some of the posts relating to this strike.  My main purpose in this answer is to thank all our moderators for their work on this site and to note that I empathise with the difficulties they are experiencing dealing with an influx of AI-generated answers.  This seems to me to be an inherently hard problem to deal with, so I can only hope that our moderators are given appropriate support.  I'm a big fan of whuber's recommendation that moderators continue moderating posts on their intrinsic merits (once they are no longer on strike).  I have confidence that our moderators can do a good job dealing with AI-generated answers if properly supported.</p>
<p>With that it mind, a general request from the community:</p>
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<li><p>Do not post AI-generated answers without attribution to the relevant AI platform.  If you want to post an answer that was generated using an AI language tool, make it clear in your answer that this is where it came from and cite the source appropriately (e.g., cite the tool you used and the query that generated the text).  Let moderators deal with your post with the aid of candid attribution of your sources.</p>
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<li><p>If you are the unfortunate victim of an incorrect attribution of AI-usage, and your question/answer is closed, deleted, etc., try to remain calm and understand that <em>some</em> false positives are an inevitable result of binary predictions applying to thousands of data points.  (As statisticians, this should not come as a shock to us.)  If you have been incorrectly flagged as using an AI language tool for an answer, stay calm and talk to the moderators about it.  It is understandable to feel somewhat offended at having been flagged as AI if you have written your own work, but temper that feeling by acknowledgement that perfect prediction in all cases is an unrealistic expectation.</p>
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