AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) • Hacker News Board

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

#11

Post by Gecko4072 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 8:06 PM UTC

I thought this was: I summarized with AI; didn't read.

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

#12

Post by add-sub-mul-div » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 8:06 PM UTC

sega_sai wrote: post #5

If some text is AI written as a response to a much shorter prompt, then the prompt and/or sources used to make the text should be published instead (or at the very least together with the text).

I think of a prompt more like a tweet. The medium does matter. If someone was only willing or able to put an abbreviated amount of thought and effort into something, it's not worth a disproportionate amount my time or attention.

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

#13

Post by r_lee » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 8:06 PM UTC

pavon wrote: post #3

AI—DR

that's load-bearing

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

#14

Post by eddieroger » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 8:08 PM UTC

>However, I have a new policy.

>If you’re not bothered enough to review and edit it...

>...then I’m not going to bother reading it.

Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but we've had copywriters and editors for generations now. Not reading something because AI did the post-writing work feels kinda weak. Skip stuff started from AI, fine, but this is just because it's AI, not because the author didn't do the task. And I do get the point is that if an AI did /most/ of the work, ok to that, too, but not post-write processing alone.

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

#15

Post by JoshTriplett » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 8:08 PM UTC

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #12

sega_sai wrote: post #5

If some text is AI written as a response to a much shorter prompt, then the prompt and/or sources used to make the text should be published instead (or at the very least together with the text).

I think of a prompt more like a tweet. The medium does matter. If someone was only willing or able to put an abbreviated amount of thought and effort into something, it's not worth a disproportionate amount my time or attention.

Exactly. And I think the information theory matters here: it's worth putting in information proportional to the human-supplied input, not proportional to the AI-expanded output.

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

#16

Post by adroitboss » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 8:08 PM UTC

Gecko4072 wrote: post #11

I thought this was: I summarized with AI; didn't read.

I thought the exact same. There is also a growing problem with people using AI to summarize everything instead of reading the actual text. I thought this addressed that issue by having a section for the AI to help summarize or something similar.