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Hacker News has an alarmingly high tolerance for slop content these days It also has social norms against accusing something of being written with AI, which means the community has trouble strengthening its immune system against that slop

What do you mean? Same it’s always been from my perspective 😉

My god the articles feel like they're all written by Claude. All the Claude writing really grates on me. It's as if I'm reading articles written by my dad all day. Sure, he's a decent writer, but I don't want to *only* read his stuff, plus if I wanted something, I'd just ask him.

Your comment reminded me that this generation of children is being raised, at least partly, by LLMs. I know multiple parents who ask Claude questions regularly about this or that. I imagine anthropomorphizing them as a third parent will be common in the future unfortunately.

Well, if Claude is better than the average parent at parenting, I'm glad parents are talking to Claude.

Eventually we'll develop human heuristics to weed it out like we did presentations that used the clip art and standard templates. Until then…

The best heuristic I have is to check for other posts or article by the same "author" - the slop accounts tend to use exactly the same length, style and shape of content for everything

So is the defining quality (among others) for something worth reading that it be written by a human?

Oh I know, I was being cheeky

I find the lobsters posts / discussions more based, but I do think we are ripe for someone to disrupt this space in the near future. Hoping to see an atproto based platform take off