> quite a few folks here are prepared to reply to obviously generated comments by simply citing and linking the rule

Note that the guidelines do explicitly say not to post about guidelines violations in comments, and to email them instead. I know this isn’t a well-loved guideline in this modern era, but duly noted: those well-intended comments are themselves breaking the guidelines.

What constitutes “at edited”. If I throw a block of text in to an ai see if it makes sense — say a response to a post — and fold the suggestions in, is that “ai edited”?

Sadly, I suspect the rate of generation of AI "everyones" vastly exceeds the community's capacity to teach culture.