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Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

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If someone were so dumb they didn’t understand the method used in the link… mind explaining?

Oh, there's a non sequitir in the parent comment that gives away some kind of leaky context situation, and the commenter is just replying with the same very generic "please elaborate" that we all throw at a language model from time to time. Not because anyone cares what the random text generator has to say, just because it's funny to light a few thousand tokens on fire.

I dont see that. To me it reads like a genuine question to an actually underspecified part of how much embedded carbon emissions ram entails. I read the question at the time and found it reasonable and genuine, and I see no strong reason to suspect that any of the commenters there is an LLM.

Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

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We 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…

I find PG's article so dismissive. I know several people that have difficulty writing but are still f*cking smart. So what, they should refrain from using AI to help them because the AI police says so? But yeah, let's continue classifying people based on their outer qualities and habits... History showed us were this leads us to. And here an em dash -- to freak out the AI police.

I strongly agree. Humanity only benefits from having more smart ideas published.

Better is simply don't publish slop. If someone spends time refining and editing their idea with AI assistance and are happy with the quality of the finished product then I say go for it.

It's not like all human writers produce content that is worth reading.

Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

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You've accurately described the current state of Lobsters.

As opposed to wonderful old HN, where about 95% of the front page is now AI, AI-related, or AI-generated.

My memory is pretty spotty, but wasn't it similar with other hype-cycle topics like cryptocurrencies?

Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

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bullshitting has never been a crime if it were, 90% of startups would be illegal and they founders jailable

Fraud is a crime, but admittedly, not all bullshitting is fraud.

unless you signed a contract with your readers, saying "this article was not LLM written" while being written by LLMs is not fraud, just lying which is legal

but we are not even talking about that, most authors do not claim LLMs were not used

Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

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Fwiw I find social media scores corny Just stokes addiction to a false sense of empowerment and social contribution Downvote away to hide from ideas and opinions you don't like. Conservative people are the only people so dysregulated by ideas they don't understand or that do not validate prior experience and embedded biases they just try to hide them from view. Not the kind of people whose judgment I concern myself w…

"anybody that doesn't agree with me is a cave-dwelling conservative" yeah keep chatting with the sycophantic psychosis-inducing LLM chatbot, I think you'll have a better time.

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Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

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post #42

We 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…

Let's make flags public, too. Flagged_by link.

Congratulations on your recursive ascension, too

Re: Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

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I just look at the comments first. I probably shouldn’t give away these hn secrets so freely, but people will always comment if it’s ai, or not worth reading, or won’t load, and in the early hn days it actually helped submitters avoid the hug of death. Also works for paywalled; someone will comment the archived version.
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