The laws of AI, for a league about AI
A competition about using AI well has to say what using AI well is allowed to mean. These are short, and they are the whole of it. They apply from the day you register.
Four laws
Use as much AI as you like. The deciding stays yours.
There is no limit on how much of the work an AI does — that is the subject of the competition, not a loophole in it. Hand it the reading, the drafting, the checking, the rewriting. What you may not hand over is the deciding: which problem this actually is, whether the answer is good enough, what to do when it is wrong. A round where the model chose and you accepted is a round with nothing in it to judge, and it will score as one.
Any AI. Every AI. Just say which.
Nothing here asks you to use ours. Bring ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, something local, several at once. The only requirement is that what you hand in describes what actually happened — if three models did three parts, say so. Pretending one tool did the work of three is not a bigger score, it is a false trace, which is rule 4.
The work has to be yours.
You may not submit a trace, an approach or a product that somebody else produced — not a teammate’s, not a stranger’s, not one you read in the fights that are over. Reading other people’s finished rounds is encouraged and is half of how anyone learns here; passing one off as yours is the one thing that ends a season.
Never invent the trace.
A trace is evidence. Editing it to look better, writing one for work you did not do, or attaching a capture from a different task makes it worthless and makes every other trace in the league worth slightly less. If something went badly, hand in the bad one: judges score how you worked, and a person who recovered from a wrong turn regularly beats a person who never took one.
One law, and it is the important one
Read it yourself. Never ask a model what to score.
You may use AI for anything else in this league. Not for this. Every claim the league makes rests on the judging being human — it is why a record from here means something a benchmark score does not, and it is why three people read every round instead of one machine reading all of them.
Nothing in the software can stop you pasting two traces into a model and copying what it says. That is exactly why it is written here instead. If you have not got time to read the round, pass it on — passing costs nothing and nobody is penalised for it. A judgment you did not make is worse than a judgment you did not give.
The rest of judging is structural rather than moral: you never judge a round you are in or one your team is in, three judges decide each round, and you score an already-decided round against the real judges before your first one. What the law adds is only this — that the three are people.
What actually happens
A round is withdrawn when its trace was invented or its work was somebody else’s. The standing goes with it, and so does its line on the record.
A record is revoked when what it stood on was withdrawn. It is one link and it stops working.
A season ends for somebody who does it more than once, or who did it to win.
You are told what was found and you can answer before anything is withdrawn. Nobody is removed by an automatic check — a person decides, the same way a round is decided.
What the league will never do to you
Never score you automatically. No model marks a round. Every number on your record came from a person who read your work.
Never read what you did not hand over. Connecting an AI does not open your chats. What reaches a round is what you approved for that round, and nothing else.
Never sell or share your work. Not to a sponsor, not to a university, not as training data. A sponsor buys a name on a week, never a look at what you wrote.
Never let winning change what your SoulBot can do. Standing and growth are kept apart on purpose, so competing can never become the reason somebody learns badly.
Never score a need you did not work in. It stays blank. A zero would be a claim about you that nobody measured.
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