As Judicial Board cases mount against students using artificial intelligence to answer questions on problem sets, generate papers, or even suggest topics for discussion during conference, we here at the Quest thought it was high time to formalize our own AI policy. Though in the past few years we have, of course, shunned the use of AI especially in the context of writing published in the Quest, we now find it necessary to make a formal policy completely preventing the use of AI for pieces published in the Quest. The agreement not to use AI is a social contract that every contributor is expected to uphold. As the editorial staff of the Quest, we reserve the right to decline to publish any content that we reasonably believe is AI.
The policy reads as such: “The Quest will not publish any writing or media that can be reasonably suspected to have been generated by artificial intelligence.”
The Quest appreciates the hard work of all of our contributors who create their own material and highly encourages the continuation of this wonderful work that they do. The Quest fervently condones the Submission of Human Generated Slop™ so that our readers may enjoy the delectable fruits of their fellow students’ intellectual labor. If an aspiring Reedie should like to join the ranks of those who write for the Quest, one may submit their work to quest@reed.edu every Tuesday evening (preferably but not necessarily having attended a contributor’s meeting on Mondays, 5pm in GCC047).
Some ideas to get the creative juices percolating:
History of Reed
Future of Reed (there’s some kind of interdisciplinary combined science building thing in the works I think. Frankenstein’s lab coming when?)
Reed present (we call this news!)
Local, national, international, or galactic news
Entertainment columns of the week on fun facts, fashion, monsters, dog, cats, birds, insects, restaurant, brands, furniture, video games, board games, card games, Wikipedia articles, and more.
Reviews of movies, TV shows, albums, songs, books, essays, magazines, performances, paintings, poems, posts, blogs, utterances, or anything else!
Artistic creations such as photography, poems, puns, drawings, sketches, blueprints,
Quest’s Quests (a whimsical to-do list published in this paper)
Quests Past, that is, reviews of old Quest articles. Come to contributor’s meetings and browse our collection of Quests going back to 1915. A lot of crazy stuff has happened in the last 111 years, and you should come write about them so that 111 years from now someone can look back and say “Wow! They sure did a thing.”