Clarification Needed: KA Guidelines on Generative AI in Programming Projects

It's only hidden from the Hot List, a decision that I agree with. The program API no longer shows flags.

Hi cwalsh1223 #BBB,

I understand that the program was only hidden from the hotlist, but my question is: why? Based on the current Khan Academy Programming Guidelines, I don’t believe I’ve breached any rules, so I’m unsure why it needed to be hidden at all.

More broadly, it would be helpful for Khan Academy staff and guardians to clarify what the current guidelines actually are, so there’s clear visibility on what is and isn’t allowed.

As mentioned, I spent a significant amount of time on this program, and I believe it provided value by demonstrating what’s possible with GenAI. The comments included in the program were also intended to be educational and useful from a learning perspective.

Hey Gray Wolf,

From talking to the guardians, they have told me that they hide programs from the hotlist if

1) Just Images
2) Just text and background
3) "Low-quality"(depends on the circumstance)
4) Programs where they didn't make it, which would include spin-offs, games where they just copied and pasted the code but gave credit, or AI-generated things with credit to AI.

I understand you put 4 hours of effort into the project. I think they would say something along the lines of "We won't to encourage others to learn code themselves and be able to code without AI, not just being able to use AI with good prompts.", I think if you were to have say spent a while coding a tree as well, and compared it, then it wouldn't have been removed form the hotlist.

Hopefully that clears some up, but yes, I agree that it would be nice if they sent a message clarifying (not necessarily a warning, but a message).

Gray Wolf 🐺,

Evan Lewis and/or William have remarked that in regard to Generative AI, they hide programs if:

A) They are completely generated 

B) Generative AI use is not mentioned or credited, while a great majority of the program is irrefutably generated. This is typically more loosely enforced

Due to KA being a learning site purely, the concept of completely generating programs is discouraged because the user typically does not learn anything in the process (prompt generation is an insignificant argument). I also believe that the KA Moderators have made a update concerning AI usage in the Terms of Use.

Hi all!

I wanted to let you know that today we updated the Project Guidelines to include specific policies regarding AI-generated content.

We have also added a new "AI-generated" flag option for users to report AI-generated projects that are on the Hot List.