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Generative AI has evolved further, and its performance in competitive programming has improved. While the overall impact of generative AI on ratings is not significant at present, there is considerable dissatisfaction among users, and the enjoyment of competition has been greatly diminished. To overcome this situation and make competitive programming more enjoyable, we have decided to impose even stricter prohibitions on the use of generative AI than before. There are significant changes to the rules, so please make sure to review them. These rules apply to both ABC and ARC. They do not apply to AGC, where we plan to only include problems that generative AI cannot solve correctly. ## Rules For detailed rules, please check the following page: - [AtCoder Rules against Generative AI - Version 20241115](https://info.atcoder.jp/entry/llm-rules-en) To summarize the rules, the main points are as follows: - When using generative AI for code generation, only completion aimed at increasing coding speed is permitted. It must not be used to solve problems or sub-problems, or to obtain ideas. - Translation into various languages or conversion to other programming languages is only permitted in the formats specified in the rules. ## Rule Creation Guidelines and Future Rule Changes The guidelines for creating rules have not changed significantly since the previous rule establishment. Based on the evolution of generative AI, we updated the rules believing that adding restrictions on using generative AI for coding and ideation would better preserve the "joy of thinking through solutions" in competitive programming. We believe that competitive programming has always been a competition based on participants' conscience. Please cooperate in preserving the culture of competitive programming. If we detect many users clearly violating the rules, we are considering strict measures, including blocking access from those groups to specific contests and taking legal action. Depending on future developments in generative AI and trends among users, we may impose additional restrictions, such as prohibiting the use of specific services. We will continue to post rules in easily accessible locations, so please stay informed.

We will restructure the contests. - Admins (From September 2024) - The admin of AWTF will be <a href="/user/maroonrk" class="username"><span style="color:#869120;">maroonrk</span></a>. (no change) - The admin of AGC will be <a href="/user/maroonrk" class="username"><span style="color:#869120;">maroonrk</span></a>. (no change) - The admin of ARC will be changed from <a href="/user/maroonrk" class="username"><span style="color:#869120;">maroonrk</span></a> to <img src="//img.atcoder.jp/assets/icon/crown_silver.png"> <a href="/user/snuke" class="username"><span style="color:#1000AC;">snuke</span></a>. - The admin of ABC will be <img src="//img.atcoder.jp/assets/icon/crown_silver.png"> <a href="/user/snuke" class="username"><span style="color:#1000AC;">snuke</span></a>. (no change) - Frequency of contests - We will hold AWTF once per year. - From August 2024 to December 2024, we will hold AGC once per month. The frequency of AGC in 2025 hasn't been decided yet. - We will hold ARC once or twice per month. At least 20 per year. - We will hold ABC almost every week. - Rated ranges (from AGC067/ARC184) - We will raise the lower bound of the rated range of AGC to 2000. (no upper bound) - We will raise the lower bound of the rated range of ARC to 1200. (The upper bound will remain 2799) - The rated range of ABC will be 0-1999. (no change) - The difficulties and the point values of ARC (From September 2024 / ARC 184) - The problems will be mainly adjusted for yellows and oranges. - If we predict that a problem will be solved by about half of the participants around rating 2000, we will usually assign 600 points to the problem (sometimes we may slightly adjust it for various reasons). Similarly, 2400 - 800, 2800 - 1000. - We will mainly use problems with 600 points or lower for A/B, problems between 600-1000 points for C/D/E, and problems with 1000 points or higher for F. - The difficulty of problems A/B/C/D will be similar to recent ARCs. E/F (especially E) will be easier.