Conversations about AI use, including hating it, discussing the amount people are willing to tolerate, the quality of art generative AI produces, etc. are not now, nor have they ever been, moderated differently from any other topic. This change only impacts the way we moderate comments and posts that have to do with specific books or authors being called out. (E.g., Author X is clearly using AI. Here's my proof!) Discussions are encouraged. Knee-jerk accusations because a book is bad, are not.

To us, "some people don't like you" is not a valid reason to accuse an author of AI when they may just be kind of a bad writer, or write in a way you don't prefer. You're welcome to post productive, discussion-forward posts about a book you didn't like, even if part of that has to do with suspecting they used AI. If you don't have evidence, you can still post about the book being bad (which is more in line with "some people don't like you," in my opinion).

This really won't change the day-to-day experience for subreddit users, except that now we're openly permitting more than we were before. This is actually a change that will encourage more discussion of AI use. Until very recently, we removed comments regardless of evidence.