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hn consumers by and large weren’t upvoting AI-written technology articles 12 months ago. The models got better, and now multiple such articles appear on the fro
by twoodfin 6mo ago
hn consumers by and large weren’t upvoting AI-written technology articles 12 months ago. The models got better, and now multiple such articles appear on the front page daily—with glowing comments.
Humanity’s aesthetics are not (apparently) all that sophisticated on average.
- andersonpico 6mo agoHN is the most concentrated accelerationist audience in the whole world and its very particular type of crowd. I don't think this translates at all to general public (well, maybe I would agree with you that the aesthetic sense of people on here is really less sophisticated than average).
- twoodfin 6mo agoMy point is that most of these “vibe articles” are pretty bad. They’re muddled in their ideas and full of gaps in logic or fact. But the aesthetics are tuned enough to get upvotes from this same audience that thinks AI music is going nowhere.
- nullsanity 6mo ago[dead]
- arcticfox 6mo ago[flagged]
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- twoodfin 6mo agoExactly backwards: These articles suck because the writing sucks. There was this morning a well-written, engaging article about building a Gameboy emulator in F# that the author admitted using some LLM help to compose. Easy upvote. It’s not impossible to get these tools to make your writing better, and presumably that will become easier over time. But if you don’t put in the effort & your own clear ideas, the result today is garbage. But pleasing garbage to a wide swath of the hn audience. Pop tech writing!
- card_zero 6mo agoThere are underexplored musical genres?
- defrost 6mo agoThere's currently a serious lack of banjo and didgeridoo collaboration, aside from that one human band from Elcho Island. Clearly the world needs Clankers to bridge the shortfall of six fingered circular mouth breathers /s
- ciupicri 6mo agoCould you give some examples of such articles?
- cryzinger 6mo agoNot the person you're replying to, but here's one that was at the top of the homepage this morning (and that I immediately clicked out of because it had that AI stink). I would bet my next paycheck that this was heavily edited by an LLM, if not outright written by one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973376 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973376
- card_zero 6mo agoOK, but to qualify it also needs glowing comments about the writing, not just interaction with the concept (or title) of the article. Only one person did that ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973724 ... then got contradicted and downvoted.
- twoodfin 6mo agoHere’s a sample of my “flagged” list from just the past few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897140
- _kulang 6mo agoIt’s also hard to develop taste in an environment flooded with content. I am not sure how much of that is AI writing getting better, and how much of that is just a lack of taste from the newest members