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I feel like you were trying to help here, but anyone can do this for themselves. Providing information in this way sort of indicates that you don't believe tha

I feel like you were trying to help here, but anyone can do this for themselves. Providing information in this way sort of indicates that you don't believe that the person you're replying to can do it on their own, and for that reason it's considered rude.

skygazer 1y ago
Also, HN hates machine generated replies, especially the lengthy and overly verbose slop variety -- I think that probably eclipsed any perceived rudeness.
tbossanova 1y ago
I see what you mean, but I actually think there is a place for copy/pasting AI responses. I think of it as a kind of cache, surely a HN comment being served to n users means less resources used and faster access than if all n did their own AI query. But then of course you don’t get exactly your preference e.g. you might prefer a terser response than what is pasted here. Interesting to see how the etiquette around this plays out over time.
- vasco 1y ago
  If you ever wanted to share an AI response, you probably should share your prompt, not the response. But likely you should not share anything, for the reasons already explained. Your argument about saving energy makes zero sense if you have any understanding of orders of magnitude but I won't share what AI says about it.
  - tbossanova 1y ago
    Ironically you are being incredibly rude trying to support an argument that posting AI responses is rude. I guess we can conclude you know nothing about anything.
    - vasco 1y ago
      I never mention rudeness, I dont give a shit about random people online being "rude". It's just something I don't like, so I shared my opinion.
      - tbossanova 1y ago
        Still ironic. Just so you know I might have considered what you said and changed my mind, but being rude made me dismiss you immediately. Just sharing my opinion
EasyMark 1y ago
I was, I was also seeing if the hackernews braintrust would freak out at AI much like reddit does, so it was sort of tongue-in-cheek experiment. And freak out they did.

skygazer 1y ago

Also, HN hates machine generated replies, especially the lengthy and overly verbose slop variety -- I think that probably eclipsed any perceived rudeness.

tbossanova 1y ago

I see what you mean, but I actually think there is a place for copy/pasting AI responses. I think of it as a kind of cache, surely a HN comment being served to n users means less resources used and faster access than if all n did their own AI query. But then of course you don’t get exactly your preference e.g. you might prefer a terser response than what is pasted here. Interesting to see how the etiquette around this plays out over time.

vasco 1y ago
If you ever wanted to share an AI response, you probably should share your prompt, not the response. But likely you should not share anything, for the reasons already explained. Your argument about saving energy makes zero sense if you have any understanding of orders of magnitude but I won't share what AI says about it.
- tbossanova 1y ago
  Ironically you are being incredibly rude trying to support an argument that posting AI responses is rude. I guess we can conclude you know nothing about anything.
  - vasco 1y ago
    I never mention rudeness, I dont give a shit about random people online being "rude". It's just something I don't like, so I shared my opinion.
    - tbossanova 1y ago
      Still ironic. Just so you know I might have considered what you said and changed my mind, but being rude made me dismiss you immediately. Just sharing my opinion

EasyMark 1y ago

I was, I was also seeing if the hackernews braintrust would freak out at AI much like reddit does, so it was sort of tongue-in-cheek experiment. And freak out they did.