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I have had to stop commenting this because it would end up on 50% of the posts here. I really wish we could flag prose as ai-generated on here and just filter

I have had to stop commenting this because it would end up on 50% of the posts here. I really wish we could flag prose as ai-generated on here and just filter it out.

gr_norm 2mo ago
LinkedIn (of all places!) announced a button for flagging this recently: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hsrinivasan1_ai-slop-is-a-top-priority-for-all-of-us-share-7488612006321889282-Ps8Z https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hsrinivasan1_ai-slop-is-a-top... How well it would work on this site, I'm not sure.
- hankbond 2mo ago
  Next up, LinkedIn starts using this feedback to train a classifier. They then announce an officially approved "not slop" classification only for LinkedIn Gold member posts. The classified posts have a wider reach due to everyone filtering out AI slop. Non-members automatically get bucketed in with the slop bc they don't pay to have the verified classifier run on them.
  - serf 2mo ago
    seems like at that point it'd be a bigger benefit for LinkedIn to provide the one and only model trained to subvert the human capability to detect slop using that new negative corpus. then we're all screwed I guess. lol
- physix 2mo ago
  Better would have been to offer a button to flag something that does NOT seem like AI slop on LinkedIn.
- speedgoose 2mo ago
  If it works, it’s going to be the best feature introduced by a social network in a long time. Incredible that it comes from LinkedIn.
  - SchemaLoad 2mo ago
    I wonder if the realised the entire website has become the most unbearable AI slop imaginable and if they don't do anything about it they won't have any real humans reading posts, just agents trying to advertise to each other.
- Oras 2mo ago
  If there is an action on AI slop on LI, it will end up with almost no posts at all
trollbridge 2mo ago
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dgellow 2mo ago
Don’t stop commenting about it, if there is something we (the readers) can do is ensure it is seen as uncool to post slop content
- serf 2mo ago
  fine but please realize that also just pushes people away from caring about the comment section at all, too. I can only read so many (either pro OR against) ".. IT'S AI! ! !" comments before skipping the thread. I can't be the only one.
hamdingers 2mo ago
Drives me nuts that comments are held to a higher standard than submissions. HN is for conversation between humans[1] (about AI generated blogspam, apparently) 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mannanj 2mo ago
  Meta recently added a filter as a requirement for posts on Facebook. if it was ai generated, you are required to check off a box for that on your posts. I've been asking for that for some time.
  - HDBaseT 2mo ago
    This is only to help them filter out AI generations for their own training data. There is no way you can "block" all "ai generated content" from your view.
leawi 2mo ago
Recently, I wrote a small script for myself that scrapes the comments to see if anyone already said it's AI, and if so, grays out the article...

I have had to stop commenting this because it would end up on 50% of the posts here. I really wish we could flag prose as ai-generated on here and just filter it out.

gr_norm 2mo ago

LinkedIn (of all places!) announced a button for flagging this recently: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hsrinivasan1_ai-slop-is-a-top-priority-for-all-of-us-share-7488612006321889282-Ps8Z https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hsrinivasan1_ai-slop-is-a-top... How well it would work on this site, I'm not sure.

hankbond 2mo ago
Next up, LinkedIn starts using this feedback to train a classifier. They then announce an officially approved "not slop" classification only for LinkedIn Gold member posts. The classified posts have a wider reach due to everyone filtering out AI slop. Non-members automatically get bucketed in with the slop bc they don't pay to have the verified classifier run on them.
- serf 2mo ago
  seems like at that point it'd be a bigger benefit for LinkedIn to provide the one and only model trained to subvert the human capability to detect slop using that new negative corpus. then we're all screwed I guess. lol
physix 2mo ago
Better would have been to offer a button to flag something that does NOT seem like AI slop on LinkedIn.
speedgoose 2mo ago
If it works, it’s going to be the best feature introduced by a social network in a long time. Incredible that it comes from LinkedIn.
- SchemaLoad 2mo ago
  I wonder if the realised the entire website has become the most unbearable AI slop imaginable and if they don't do anything about it they won't have any real humans reading posts, just agents trying to advertise to each other.
Oras 2mo ago
If there is an action on AI slop on LI, it will end up with almost no posts at all

trollbridge 2mo ago

dgellow 2mo ago

Don’t stop commenting about it, if there is something we (the readers) can do is ensure it is seen as uncool to post slop content

serf 2mo ago
fine but please realize that also just pushes people away from caring about the comment section at all, too. I can only read so many (either pro OR against) ".. IT'S AI! ! !" comments before skipping the thread. I can't be the only one.

hamdingers 2mo ago

Drives me nuts that comments are held to a higher standard than submissions. HN is for conversation between humans[1] (about AI generated blogspam, apparently) 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mannanj 2mo ago
Meta recently added a filter as a requirement for posts on Facebook. if it was ai generated, you are required to check off a box for that on your posts. I've been asking for that for some time.
- HDBaseT 2mo ago
  This is only to help them filter out AI generations for their own training data. There is no way you can "block" all "ai generated content" from your view.

leawi 2mo ago

Recently, I wrote a small script for myself that scrapes the comments to see if anyone already said it's AI, and if so, grays out the article...