Recently I received a lot of negative feedback from a few HNers about an AI summary I posted about a complex immigration concept (changes to non-Immigrant visas in the US). The post received a number of upvotes but the comments were negative from Anti-AI folks. I’ve seen a number of negative posts about AI here as well. Would there be any interest in a static site that would regularly scan the public HN posts from their API and generate AI summaries of the content without a comment section?
Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
#2No. And it's not just "anti-AI folks" who consider it spam and noise to copy-paste LLM summaries into a discussion forum.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
#3Why? Anyone who wanted that could copy-paste into chatgpt or install a browser extension to do it for them.
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
#5The main reason your comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160084) got downvoted was because you gave a summary without disclosing it's AI-generated, which made other users upset.
But even if you did disclose, it's still against HN rules, as other people in that thread told you. You commented "they’re free to delete it. I think it adds value", but as you've seen the community disagrees.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
#6Why not just go full-on dystopia and make a slackernews.com site that is an exact mirror of the submissions from HN api, and then populate them with entirely chatbot generated comment sections?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
#7Why? Anyone who wanted that could copy-paste into chatgpt or install a browser extension to do it for them.
That creates a ton of traffic to LLMs for the same summary. Why not have one person do it and post it?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
#8The main reason your comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160084 ) got downvoted was because you gave a summary without disclosing it's AI-generated , which made other users upset. But even if you did disclose, it's still against HN rules, as other people in that thread told you. You commented "they’re free to delete it. I think it adds value", but as you've seen the community disagrees.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not according to the guidelines and the upvotes the comment received.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
#9Why? Anyone who wanted that could copy-paste into chatgpt or install a browser extension to do it for them.
That creates a ton of traffic to LLMs for the same summary. Why not have one person do it and post it?
If there were a actual demand for that, Y Combinator could implement something similar to Google AI Overview that automatically summarizes each post, which would strongly discourages people from actually reading the articles and giving thoughtful insights.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
#10Why not just go full-on dystopia and make a slackernews.com site that is an exact mirror of the submissions from HN api, and then populate them with entirely chatbot generated comment sections?
There would be no comments, just a summary of the contents of the post with a link to post.