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Comment by tjpnz | Hacker News Reader

A typical Medium post might include two (perhaps three, if you're lucky) paragraphs of low quality content and a few snippets of code which were helpfully provided as screenshots instead of text. Punctuate that with some boilerplate about the author's Twitter account and that's pretty much all you're getting.

Maybe I'm generalizing just a tiny bit, but my god, it's full of crap. If I were Medium I would be doing everything I could to encourage AI authored content.

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Don't read on Medium a lot, but about UX design topics, I found some mid to high quality quick readings on this two publications:

- https://uxdesign.cc

- https://uxplanet.org

I will not call it crap.

so you say it's full of crap, and the solution is for them to allow even more, even crappier crap?

I think the argument is, AI generated content is less crappy crap than the current crop.

They’ve tried to attract high-quality human work for a while, and it doesn’t seem to have worked for them. Might as well try something new instead of digging in.

Much like /r/SubredditSimulator, at this point, the robotic crap will stink less than organic feces.

There is some truth to it. I personally don't read most blog post, including medium. The quality of content is IMO proportional to the author's experience and their effort in producing the content. On medium/Twitter/whatever blogging platform it is just too easy to create crap, crap that aims to "build up audience". Flood them with AI generated content might hint reader to go somewhere else, hopefully somewhere with more depth.

Book is where I find the most value.

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