This gets into the particulars of how moderation on SO usually works. Posts are only deleted for low quality when they are really terrible. Most bad posts are handled by downvoting by the community, no mods involved. Deciding which posts are bad very often requires domain knowledge, which the mods can't have for every possible topic on SO.
SE dropped this new policy on monday, a holiday and it went into effect immediately. They never even mentioned before that they were concerned about false positives here. They could have just asked the mods, explained the concerns and asked them to be more careful. That never happened.
The new policy isn't just erring towards avoiding false positives, it is far more extreme than that and prevents almost all cases of AI-generated content from being moderated.
There are other concerns like e.g. especially academic sites are strict about considering the use of AI-generated content without declaring it to be plagiarism. Acting on that is now impossible.
SE dropped this new policy on monday, a holiday and it went into effect immediately. They never even mentioned before that they were concerned about false positives here. They could have just asked the mods, explained the concerns and asked them to be more careful. That never happened.
The new policy isn't just erring towards avoiding false positives, it is far more extreme than that and prevents almost all cases of AI-generated content from being moderated.
There are other concerns like e.g. especially academic sites are strict about considering the use of AI-generated content without declaring it to be plagiarism. Acting on that is now impossible.