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Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate th
by albertgoeswoof 4mo ago
Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it.
If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?
- sevenzero 4mo agoI remember a frontpage post from like 2 days ago: "If you want human attention show human effort" or something in that direction. I think this fits here just right.
- gbalduzzi 4mo agoI think in this case the human effort was put into the actual discovery, honestly I don't mind if AI helped him write the blog post if the result is enjoyable and not sloppy
- AdminAccount 4mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497609
- pqs 4mo agoThese comments don't help much. AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.
- llbbdd 4mo agoThe problem is that people who are bad writers have trouble understanding that AI writes worse than they do
- SXX 4mo agoI'd wish we come to a day where people would just post the prompt. Then I can decide what story to generate from it.
- patates 4mo agoLook I don't like to see a wall of AI slop as much as the next person (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551462), but "just post the prompt" is also too dismissive. AI had access to information that we don't have and all you see here is probably a compilation of multiple prompts, edits and various sources (like author's notes) for context. We can adjust our expectations for people to take some time to make the output theirs. OTOH, and this is me arguing against myself, maybe this is not too different than the million web sites we saw using the unmodified default bootstrap theme. I guess my opinions as well as the response of the community are still evolving.
- TeMPOraL 4mo ago- It's called "writing in bullet points" - Normies frown upon it
- watwut 4mo agoThey don't! Before AI, people complain about long emails and what not. The literally preferred to read short ones.
- Vinnl 4mo agoI'm still planning to add a "AI-edited version" toggle to my blog. Not that it would do anything, because people wouldn't click it anyway.
- gspr 4mo ago> AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used. I don't know about you, but I'd love to read a fascinating story written by a relatively poor writer. But if they can't be bothered to write, I assume the story can't be that good.
- Oranguru 4mo agoBut this isn't a story, literature, or a fancy piece of art; it's merely a technical blog post that discloses a security vulnerability. Here, the writing serves only as a vehicle to convey a message. Once you've received it, its purpose has been fulfilled. I would agree with you if the writing were an important part of the message, but here it is not. Not everybody can write well, and this guy clearly had something to tell, and that is what matters.
- gspr 4mo ago> But this isn't a story, literature, or a fancy piece of art; it's merely a technical blog post that discloses a security vulnerability. Here, the writing serves only as a vehicle to convey a message. Once you've received it, its purpose has been fulfilled. I disagree wholeheartedly. I'm not a machine. I'm a thinking, feeling, human being. As a mathematician, I can certainly appreciate precise formulations. They have their place. But this is not that place. > Not everybody can write well, and this guy clearly had something to tell, and that is what matters. I'm sadenned that he wouldn't tell it in his way. I'd much rather read his own (poorly written?) words.
- BobDaHacker 4mo agoYeah I used Claude as a writing assistant for the initial draft. I'm autistic and long-form writing isn't my strong suit, getting a 4000 word blog post to flow well is genuinely hard for me. But I do edit it pretty heavily after, the voice and the jokes and the structure are mine, the AI just helps me get a baseline down so I'm not staring at a blank page. The research, the screenshots, the disclosure, that's all me. I've been doing this stuff for years.
- tlogan 4mo agoMy opinion is that this is a great story. But the haters are going to hate. If you had not used AI to fix your post, I bet the top post will be complaining about your grammar. Some people will always find something negative. Simple as that.
- alexhans 4mo agoI think the criticism is constructive. It's really not about hating. I'd wager many of the people who convey this criticism do use AI to aid their writing as well. It's just that this one in particular lacks one more edit pass removing some of the AI noise on branding-speak and needless repetition (AI tends to list things and beat the point).
- Aperocky 4mo agoWhile I appreciate the positivity, but I've honestly grown to appreciate grammar mistakes. Just like it's not X, it's Y indicated AI, those indicated that the effort behind was human. Honestly, no need to write 4000 words if the story can be told in 400. The story is what matters, not word count or "flow".
- gspr 4mo ago> If you had not used AI to fix your post, I bet the top post will be complaining about your grammar. I'm positive that a post complaining about the grammar would've been (rightfully) downvoted to oblivion on this site.
- maciekkmrk 4mo ago
- V__ 4mo agoI am curious, what exactly triggers your AI senses in this post?
- mdrzn 4mo ago"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data." It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.
- bcraven 4mo agoGemini loves talking about "The Nuclear Option" too
- Anamon 4mo agoYou've hit a classic "gotcha".
- drra 4mo agoI found myself writing exactly like this for a while after reading pages and pages of this special construct before my bs detector understood what it is...
- Abimelex 4mo agoThats a literary style called anaphora. Some people learned this in school, so they can use it to emphasize something. IMHO this is not a strong sign of AI, in fact I think this text has no strong AI indicators.
- tanseydavid 4mo agoThank you for speaking up -- I feel the same way.
- sahildeepreel 4mo agoAgree, i don't think it was ai written, or atleast written very well with AI. I am usually able to pick up ai writing quickly but didnt feel it in this case
- srdjanr 4mo agoI don't mind it here at all, in fact I didn't even notice it's AI before reading this comment. It's clearly not a one-shot AI slop but a well thought out and edited by a human post. Not everyone who has something interesting to say is a good writer, and I think it's great if AI can help them tell their stories.
- alexhans 4mo agoAgreed. The post looks great. The story is great but the AI style in this case does distract. I'm not against using AI for writing at all but you want to be careful that the output doesn't contain too much of this noise over signal type of wording that repeats and wants to just sell you something.
- robeym 4mo agoUnfortunate to see AI police as top comment on a good amusing post!
- nunez 4mo agoI got 100% Human on Pangram, so either they did the work to have their AI service pass this test, or...they actually wrote it.
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