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When a long article is topped by an AI-generated image, it makes me wonder if I should bother reading. Did a human write this?
by nicbou 5mo ago
When a long article is topped by an AI-generated image, it makes me wonder if I should bother reading. Did a human write this?
- masfuerte 5mo agoI got about halfway through before the AI cliches drove me away.
- andyferris 5mo agoJust a funny observation, apologies in advance: I am rewatching Stargate SG-1 with my children right now and cannot read this comment except in the voice of Teal’c. In the previous episode the team was in 1969 on a hippy bus. My advice is to chill out a little…
- customguy 5mo agoI'm just gobsmacked at how self-absorbed this is. I was listening to some obscure band you wouldn't know with a few chicks I met roller blading last week, and I can't help but read your comment while imagining the first few notes of the second song playing. After that we watched The Simpsons and my advice is to not eat a cow, man.
- customguy 5mo agoBut on second consideration, I also want to apologize to you. It's not that your comment in a vacuum is so terribly, incredibly self-absorbed. It's the cumulative effect of many little such comments over time, which I pay way too much attention to, and you could say your comment "triggered" me and I let all that frustration out in one solid chunk of snark. "Gobsmacked" is really the wrong word for that. I sometimes am, but your comment isn't the one. The truth is, I still don't know how to put it more nicely, but please have the generosity to take my lampooning of your comment as the time honored tradition of whatever you call it when you point out the flaw in something by driving it to an absurd extreme. It does have a place, but my eye-rolling "being gobsmacked" was a bit too much indignation. tbh when I wrote that I thought I ought to get flak for that, but fuck it, I'm annoyed, I'll say it anyway. But I didn't get flak so now I feel the need to calibrate it myself a little. In short, I think you're wrong, that comment was bleh, but so was mine. Have a great weekend and much fun showing your kid stuff you both enjoy.
- enraged_camel 5mo agoIt appears to be a mix. I sense that a human wrote it, or at least parts of it, and AI was used for polish. But the LLM-isms are definitely obvious.
- xnorswap 5mo agoWhen I get the sense that something might be generated I ctrl+f "honest" and "framing". These are words that humans use, but that Claude loves to use in a particular way, the kind of way used in this article. It particularly likes the phrase "The honest version".
- poly2it 5mo ago> But the trade is real, and I don't think the industry is being honest about it. Add "X is real".
- Gomotono 5mo agoYes of course. Why? You are already on hn which filters content before you read it
- r_lee 5mo agothat is just simply wrong
- Gomotono 5mo agoWhat is wrong? I do not mind at all that someone creates an AI Image to decorate a blog article. I'm also not directly offended if someone is using an LLM to write text. And i find it a valid argument, that people who post on HN and get enough votes for content, people read and liked, that this can be enough as a filter or quality gate.
- r_lee 5mo agoHN does not filter content before you read it, there's regularly a bunch of AI slop articles/blogs/ads that get to the front page for whatever reason
- Gomotono 5mo agoYou have a new tap on top of hn and it has to be voted up to reach the normal page. In another comment they mention that there is some kind of mechanism of sometimes showing new in the overview. But besides that, its filtered
- tripleee 5mo agoIt's the same thing that's been AI-rehashed 10,000 times already - did you read one of those?