[ModernMech]

He's writing the kind of stuff that might get popular on HN, then posting it here so we go interact with his blog. He'll collect emails and gain a reader base and maybe start a substack or throw up ads on the side.

I could see this kind of AI astroturfing being a real problem communities face in the future, where you just scrape the top posts on a community and then generate blog content related to those, then post your content back at the community.

Rinse and repeat and you don't have to be a programmer anymore.

[card_zero]

Funny place to look for people to serve ads to.

[fragmede]

oh no! someone's making money, whatever shall we do???

[the_af]

I think people don't object to making money as much as being underhanded about it (trying to bootstrap from zero to money while not making it clear you're currently at zero) and also using AI slop (or slop of any kind) to quickly generate content.

People would respect this more if it was content lovingly generated for years, and then the author went "hey, maybe I can promote this on HN?". But artificially promoting worthless, slop content, is going to generate this reaction.