[kittoes]

It's a bit ironic that the site is called unslop while the post was clearly authored by Claude. All the claims about "so I did X" end up reading as quite disingenuous because there's absolutely no disclaimer whatsoever that an AI wrote the article.

[sillysaurusx]

Oh.

HN has a strong bias against anything AI authored, so in the future be sure to write your posts by hand if you plan to submit them here. Even editing the post with AI will tend to get you in trouble. But yes, at the very least you should declare when an AI is being used.

An unfortunate confounder to an otherwise interesting experiment.

[kittoes]

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for taking advantage of AIs and would never begrudge their usage. The problem I have here is with the site calling itself unslop and the post claiming "I" everywhere. Claude didn't simply assist, it wrote almost the whole article as far as I can tell. The human in the loop even went out of their way to ensure that no emdashes leaked through...

Just feels very dishonest, ya know?

[sillysaurusx]

Of course. I was just adding a little bit of context to possibly help OP in the future.

Using AI at all is a minefield when you're trying to make a social media post. Better to just avoid it entirely, or run it through AI and then cherrypick a few edits that you manually type in your own voice.