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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

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