[twoodfin]

hn consumers by and large weren’t upvoting AI-written technology articles 12 months ago. The models got better, and now multiple such articles appear on the front page daily—with glowing comments.

Humanity’s aesthetics are not (apparently) all that sophisticated on average.

[andersonpico]

HN is the most concentrated accelerationist audience in the whole world and its very particular type of crowd. I don't think this translates at all to general public (well, maybe I would agree with you that the aesthetic sense of people on here is really less sophisticated than average).

[twoodfin]

My point is that most of these “vibe articles” are pretty bad. They’re muddled in their ideas and full of gaps in logic or fact.

But the aesthetics are tuned enough to get upvotes from this same audience that thinks AI music is going nowhere.

[_kulang]

It’s also hard to develop taste in an environment flooded with content. I am not sure how much of that is AI writing getting better, and how much of that is just a lack of taste from the newest members

[ciupicri]

Could you give some examples of such articles?

[twoodfin]

Here’s a sample of my “flagged” list from just the past few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952807

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949585

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897140

[cryzinger]

Not the person you're replying to, but here's one that was at the top of the homepage this morning (and that I immediately clicked out of because it had that AI stink). I would bet my next paycheck that this was heavily edited by an LLM, if not outright written by one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973376

[card_zero]

OK, but to qualify it also needs glowing comments about the writing, not just interaction with the concept (or title) of the article. Only one person did that ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973724

... then got contradicted and downvoted.

[twoodfin]

Gotta go back two weeks, but this is the kind of comment I had in mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808139

[cryzinger]

Fair, lol. I will admit I didn't read the comments :P