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The worst part of the death of Show HN is that most of these people are so allergic to putting any effort in that they can't even write the description themselv
by anonymous908213 8mo ago
The worst part of the death of Show HN is that most of these people are so allergic to putting any effort in that they can't even write the description themselves. The repo's readme, the ShowHN post, and often even their comments will all be fully LLM-generated. This doesn't even take skill! Writing good marketing copy might take skill, but ShowHN isn't (supposed to be) marketing. Just describe the project in your own words, I promise it's not that hard. The bar is so low that even copy-pasting whatever you prompted to the LLM would be more interesting than the LLM's output. Although maybe it's better this way, since it makes it easier to filter out the garbage instantly.
- nobody_r_knows 8mo ago> I promise it's not that hard. How many non-native English speakers are on HN? If it's more than 30%, why should they have to use a whole new language if they can just let an LLM do it in a natural sounding way.
- kjkjadksj 8mo agoI’d rather read broken english than LLM output.
- dang 8mo agoYes, that's what we tell people too. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22own%20voice%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- nobody_r_knows 8mo agoYou can't even tell, bro. This comment was generated by AI. Can you tell? Hardly. You're like a bouncer telling people they can't wear warm underwear. How on earth will you possible know, care, or tell?
- seanw444 8mo agoDitto
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- stevedonovan 8mo agoYou could write in the language you are most eloquent in and prompt a bot to do a faithful translation. Post both versions
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- password4321 8mo ago> often even their comments will all be fully LLM-generated This really bothers me, coming here asking for human feedback (basically: strangers spending time on their behalf) then dumping it into the slop generator pretending it is even slightly appreciated. It wouldn't even be that much more work to prompt the LLM to hide its tone (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992#46396486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992#46396486) but even that is too much.
- dougiejones 8mo agoAs an example, I don't know if this person/machine read this thread or was reached out to by the moderators but they seemingly first had an empty post and reacted to feedback and generated a useless "backstory" to their show hn post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036610 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036610