LLM Etiquette
LLM etiquette 2026-08-04 etiquette LLMs writing Or, how to treat other humans as such, in an age of generated text. Respect the readers If you read nothing else, read this: Don’t waste readers’ time. Don’t treat the LLM as a source of indisputable facts.
- ▪LLM etiquette 2026-08-04 etiquette LLMs writing Or, how to treat other humans as such, in an age of generated text.
- ▪Respect the readers If you read nothing else, read this: Don’t waste readers’ time.
- ▪Don’t treat the LLM as a source of indisputable facts.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Paperless |
| Canonical URL | https://paperless.blog/llm-etiquette |
| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:09:06 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-12T17:26:33.638Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-12T17:26:33.638Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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LLM etiquette 2026-08-04 etiquette LLMs writing Or, how to treat other humans as such, in an age of generated text. 0. Respect the readers If you read nothing else, read this: Don’t waste readers’ time. Don’t treat the LLM as a source of indisputable facts. Don’t pretend that you wrote text you didn’t write. 1. Respond as you Manually rewrite LLM responses in your own words before putting them where other humans can see them. You have a personal way of writing, and familiarity is important when communicating with humans. You might worry that your own writing has more spelling mistakes than the LLM response. That can be fixed by sending the text through any spell checker at your disposal - any decent text editor does this out of the box.
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