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I would assume the downvotes are because the comment is GPT-generated. People come here for the community's comments and insights, not for GPT's summarisations, even if you yourself find them useful.

I personally agree with the downvotes - I don't want to see every HN post littered with "this is what GPT-4 has to say about this".

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An excellent answer - the very same kind of post I come here to read and not the very same machine-generated content that's everywhere in the Net ;-)

I think an AI summary, clearly marked as such, can be just as useful as the obligatory Archive link.

I understand the aversion against „AI spam“, but I find it weird that a supposed tech community rejects AI tech wholesale.

Nothing's stopping users who want an AI summary from feeding the content into their favourite GPT. But it's not contributing anything meaningful to a HN discussion.

The archive link is useful, because it provides you a way to access the page itself. Nobody here has subscriptions to every single service, so if there's something paywalled, that link is useful to almost everyone person. (And I wish HN did it automatically) A lazy gpt summary is not that.

Agree - possibly this is even an example of how to do it?

Clearly labelled as LLM generated and used to summarise a long RFC (where I personally didn’t find the abstract as clear as GPTs summary).

But everyone will have their own views on this. There is definitely a lot of anti-AI or anti-LLM scepticism or denial on HN.

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