[OnionBlender]

Does it really matter? If the article is poor quality, then it is poor quality. It doesn't matter if it was written by a person or an LLM. I'm more annoyed how so many articles waste time quoting things people say on social media.

[mock-possum]

I think learning to recognize generated content is an important media literacy skill, and talking about it is one of the best ways to home that skill.

[em-bee]

it matters because if we want to reduce AI slop we need to prevent it from becoming profitable.

and if we assume that an AI written article costs a fraction of a regular article, then AI articles will be profitable more easily.

[pixl97]

At this point it's like using the urinal when you're directly beside an ocean full of piss. Dealing with it at an individual level has mostly failed as it would take coordination 'before' people click on the link, and enough people to realize it's junk before they submit it to HN. Being that at least 91 people upvoted this it seems like that isn't working.

[em-bee]

maybe it isn't working because we haven't yet gotten used to detecting AI articles.

we can still change that if most of us decide to flag such articles, although, instead of a generic flag i'd like an AI flag or tag (similarly to how we tag older articles with the year). then everyone can decide on their own if it is worth their time.