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Yeah, no, if I can tell it's AI generated, that means it has the same garbage writing style that for some reason LLMs can't help but pump out. And if some human person thinks that's fine to post, they either don't care/didn't read their own post, or they have terrible taste. And again, it's a practical issue anyways. You can have Claude generate hundreds of these. I've already personally seen multiple blogs where there are multiple fully written long articles being posted per day. These even occasionally make it to Hacker News. Did the person who generated these actually read them? Probably not. Most importantly, it is unacceptable to pass off AI generated prose or images as if it is human expression. It's one thing with code where the primary point of it is to be executed, but I have zero interest in people who can't formulate their own thoughts into writing. I don't see how it is any better to submit AI generated articles to Hacker News than it is to respond to people with AI generated comments. Humans aren't infallible, but the point of content isn't the content, it is the ideas, and the ideas are valuable because of the work put into them. AI slop articles are a serious problem because they superficially look like something where a lot of effort is put in, as the models will happily make bold claims and justify them into the ground no matter how untrue or unjustified those claims are. There is a feasible future where AI generated content is also valuable because of the effort put into them. It certainly happens on occasion today. It just isn't what we're seeing here right now on Hacker News. And because many people here (certainly myself included from time to time) often skim the articles or sometimes don't even actually read them, it is important that the community put some effort into weeding out slop content, AI or human, that fails to justify its claims. The rising tide of AI generated crap is making this task harder and more annoying. This isn't something I'm ever going to relent on, either. So I will have to leave it up to HN to decide if they would rather ban us all for complaining or come to reasonable senses and agree that there is no sustainable way to allow blatantly AI-generated content onto the front page. I don't view this as an ultimatum so much as just an observation extrapolating off of what we're seeing today: nobody has really made me feel there is any compelling point to allowing AI generated crap on here. If anything the further it gets the less supported arguments in favor of it are seeming justified. The explosion in quality from better models is always around the bend. |