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Sounds like the point is getting across to you a little bit.
The prejudice? You bet.
More that people want to deal with the real you.
Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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Flagged as AI is useful as it would mean I skip the article.
You could just ask your AI to flag it with an extension, or rewrite it in a style you prefer (or just do a good job summarizing the articles core meaning).
That would be like driving a v12 down my driveway everytime I want to check the mailbox.
Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
#143I care more about hiding AI related articles than I do about AI-authored content in articles. Feels like most of the content on HN is now AI related and it’s just exhausting. Anyone have a way they’re correcting this balance of content, like a browser extension maybe?
Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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Flagged as AI is useful as it would mean I skip the article.
You could just ask your AI to flag it with an extension, or rewrite it in a style you prefer (or just do a good job summarizing the articles core meaning).
> > I don't want to deal with AI or AI slop
> You should add more AI to your life
I hope you can see how this is not a useful suggestion.
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I don't think that's a very good comparison. People can drive a car without an expert but they can't build a car. People can use software without being an expert but still require an expert to build software. AI could provided assistance with building both cars and software, but you still need a decent level of knowledge in either field to get a good result.
Programmers do not build a computer. EEs and computer engineers do that.
They are driving (lol) towards the sale of a computer with a model on chip without a programmer salary and benefits adding to cost and resource use (all the tools of the trade need to be stored and copied around).
This is capitalism, not honorific obligationism! Saving your job is no one else's burden! Disrupt! (YC crowd 15 years ago). Oh how the turn tables.
Move the context of the code to the presentation layer and eliminate state by keeping the hardware focused on computing geometric transforms. Biggidy bam label the data on the display and save both geometry and labels
There's no reason for biz logic context to exist in code.
Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
#146What about a title marker similar to [1997]? It’s content that people may or may not be interested in but will react differently if they know this about it’s origin.
Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
#147We don't allow genai text on HN itself - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 . How to enforce it is a separate question, of course, but the rule exists. We don't have a similar rule yet about article content but my sense is that the community mostly doesn't want to read it—or, to put it more conservatively, discounts it. This is why we see s…
> What I do think we'll (finally) add is a "please give a reason why you flagged this post" step, and "because I think it's genai" will be one choice among several
Does that mean that an article being AI-generated is a flaggable offense? Should we be flagging suspected AI-generated articles already, or should we wait for the flagging system to support reasons first?
Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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The tricky thing about tags is that we get a tag for genai this year, what about next year’s thing and the year after that? We’d end up with a list of tags attached haphazardly all over the place. Flagging with a box to add a reason sounds like an excellent idea.
I dunno, certainly some tags are justified, such as distinguishing submissions which are publicly-readable versus ones which require an account--or worse, payment. That's not a value-judgement of the true content of an article or piece of media, but a fairly objective facet which impacts the HN participant's experience. It's kind of like how, back in the day, people really wanted to know the filesize of something bef…
This is, IMO, an excellent analogy.
Then it was to protect our modems bandwidth (cost and time) while now it's more about protecting our own cognitive bandwidth.
Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
#149We don't allow genai text on HN itself - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 . How to enforce it is a separate question, of course, but the rule exists. We don't have a similar rule yet about article content but my sense is that the community mostly doesn't want to read it—or, to put it more conservatively, discounts it. This is why we see s…
> What I do think we'll (finally) add is a "please give a reason why you flagged this post" step, and "because I think it's genai" will be one choice among several Does that mean that an article being AI-generated is a flaggable offense? Should we be flagging suspected AI-generated articles already, or should we wait for the flagging system to support reasons first?
Damn you people for asking good questions that go straight to the fuzzy areas!
I don't know for sure yet. But you're right that that would follow from what I said.
What I do know is that users should flag articles that they think don't belong on HN. But this should rely on their reading of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not just be based on a like/dislike reaction. That is, users should flag articles that they think break the site guidelines, not just ones they dislike.
Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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I am skeptical YC frequency of "AI" related content is representative of actual users interest. Yet I agree there are a lot of cultural differences in this world that don't often translate well for some users. Some folks will assume because they disagree about some subject, that it is some sort of personal slight. Even scoring posts does provably change peoples behavior, and studies showed it tended to make people mo…
> I am skeptical YC frequency of "AI" related content is representative of actual users interest. Are you implying the front page is botted/manipulated?
Not sure why it has gravitated to a narrow scope subject, but compared to the diverse interests most technical people had in the past. LLM weights now seems like an oddly over-represented topic even when its unrelated to actual use-cases.
Throwing up a bot challenge would probably improve signal-to-noise ratios, but who knows for sure. =3