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Comment by unnouinceput | Hacker News Reader

The article's title is "How we could stumble into AI catastrophe". HN title is a clickbait

I believe HN automatically removes 'how' from the start of titles on submission.

A lot of these edits HN makes to titles seem to do more harm than good. I wonder what evidence they have, if any, to the contrary - that they improve the quality of conversation in any way?

On topic, I wonder if ChatGPT could be trained to generate a non-clickbaity, accurate headline and title for submissions? Can it be trained either to gauge bias or remove it?

I gave ChatGPT a section of the article and asked it for some non-clickbait titles and it suggested,

* Exploring the potential risks associated with advanced AI development

* Considering the risks of a world with transformative AI

Then I asked it to go the other direction:

* You won't believe what could happen if AI takes over: A world ending catastrophe is closer than you think!

That's really not bad. Definitely better than blindly chopping the titles up.

One could pretty easily build a browser extension that does this automatically all the time for some sites - in either direction

HN strips off the "How" by default.

I could see some things going wrong with that.

For example, suppose I submitted a post titled "How X Works Now.". Eg. "How Affiliate Marketing Works Now.".

Removing the "How" wouldn't really convey the sense intended.

Plus even if it was changed, it's basically the same notion.

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