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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 😉

I'm talking about AI-generated slop Interestingly it's rare in comments, but increasingly common in linked articles

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

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

Depends on the content I'm fine with LLMs writing code documentation - the qualities I care about there are clarity and accuracy, so as long as it's reviewed it I'm fine with that I'm NOT OK with AI-generate text that expresses opinions, uses personal anecdotes or tries to convince me of something

That makes a lot of sense, because that would imply intent…which I suppose we wouldn’t want AI to have