[matthewdgreen]

My point is that it's not what matters to me. Our rules shouldn't be vacuous, they should be founded in real goals that advance science. In science we want people to communicate ideas clearly, we want the ideas to be accurate, and we want to allocate credit properly to authors. Adding a rule that says "you must say you used ChatGPT or you get punished" is unlikely to advance any real goal -- it will just lead to most authors adding that footnote, and a few people getting arbitrarily punished for forgetting it.

[thfuran]

>Our rules shouldn't be vacuous

That something concerns matters of little personal interest to you doesn't make it vacuous.