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by jschveibinz 25 days ago
I get it. But information is the backbone of this forum, so I personally don't stress about it. Maybe just a note that says "AI generated"? Perhaps soon people will just post "prompts" so we can look it up or generate it ourselves. AI is probably going to be around a long time. What solutions would you offer--specifically for HN?
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AI content is against the rules, so I'd say the solution is not post it.

>Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.

> Perhaps soon people will just post "prompts" so we can look it up or generate it ourselves.

With AI being non-deterministic, this wouldn’t be very useful. Everyone in the comments would be trying to talk, all having read a different article, with sometimes wildly different content.

Posting a prompt also seems like the laziest way to post. Someone thought of an idea or a question, and instead of interrogating that idea, answering that question, or even trying to form an option… they ship the prompt off to the community and expect other people to run the prompt for them and nerd snipe them into doing all that mental work that they couldn’t be bothered with.

It’s not much different than telling people they should Google “Roman aqueducts” and talk about it.

The prompted response is far from the finished piece of writing. You'd probably want to share the full edit tree and include subsequent refinement prompts in the commit messages.
put a big red banner up top on the blog -- "This post was written by AI!" and also tag your HN posts as such.