I understand the value proposition of this but I can't get past the feeling of "this is just more auto-generated garbage". I am aware that a lot of online outlets do pretty much the same - they summarize a press release and make it their own, adding some images - and this tool is automating that process.
I just can't see myself ever reading an article like this, especially cause it's obvious to me that it's AI generated (paragraphs starting with "Moreover," , "In Summary,"). I'm a sample size of 1 though, and many other people might still read articles like this.
Another doubt I have is in regards to Google - do they like this kind of content? From what I understand they're not against AI but it has to provide valuable information. This seems to regurgitate existing information without extra commentary, so is this even helping SEO?
Apologies if this comes across as negative, I appreciate the work involved, just trying to give some honest feedback.
People hate reading low-quality content created by humans, and as far as I’ve seen, AI-generated articles are even worse.
Even if someone manages to use AI-generated content to trick Google and rank well, I suspect that will be really bad for the content creator’s brand: people will read it only once, and as they realize it’s AI-generated, they will never come back.
People hate content farms.
I linked to the shared report so that it's obvious what is actually being produced, rather than just a description of it.
This is just an example summary of a single web page, you could imagine it producing much more compelling content, for example combining multiple pieces of information, along with a twist, just as many humans do when publishing on the web. FlowChai could search hundreds of documents to produce a report (using RAG), so in that sense it can go beyond what a person could do in a reasonable time frame.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
"Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material."
We made it, you can play with it :)
If that was the only thing about a Show HN, every corporate blog post would be a Show HN. They all have products you can try out after signing up.
There is certainly some gray area around what constitutes a Show HN. But the link you submitted clearly is a blog post.
Moreover, I am not a fan of stock photos in articles and I find the generated illustrations even worse. Both quality and relevance to the accompanied text is very low.