AI, Medium, Publishing, Writing

Using AI Without Clear Attribution Should Become a Violation of the Medium Rules

There may be signs that Medium is heading this way

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Normally, if you publish a call to murder on Medium, your account will quickly be suspended. I think we’ll all agree: thank goodness. I’m not going to rewrite the Medium Rules, but you can imagine that there are plenty of other cases where a profile on Medium will be heavily sanctioned, either by a temporary suspension or a permanent one. It’s thanks to these rules that we should all feel safe on this platform.

I may be wrong, but among the profiles I spot almost daily as AI scammers — people who, in my opinion, publish stories and poems written in part or entirely by ChatGPT without disclosing it to their readers — I see more and more of them getting their accounts suspended by Medium. You can see this when you go to the person’s profile, like this one, for example. The page that appears shows a 410 error accompanied by the words: This account is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules.

Is Medium starting to shoot poisoned arrows at the AI scammers lining their pockets with money from the Partner Program? I don’t have the answer, but that’s all we can hope for. As I write…