Ask HN: How to mitigate moral concerns about launching an AI product?

Context is that I’ve been building an AI article generator. When I started, I wasn’t sure where it is heading, but I knew I want to build the best in class tool. Fast forward to today, I am seeing the early beginnings of what I originally wanted the end result to be: a generated article with only directional human inputs that’s virtually indistinguishable from a well crafted article.

However, as I am seeing the latest generation of outputs I am also increasingly often thinking about the moral implications of it. On one hand, it was inevitable that AI will be (ab)used to generate content. The vast majority of generators today are not even a threat because of their low quality output that makes it easy to identify them. But as the lines blur, how does one prevent Internet from being literally drowned in AI generated content? How do humans identify themselves?

I think a lot about it recently. On one hand, I calm myself that “if not me, someone else would do it”. And that providing article generation that produces high-quality output does more good than allowing all the “text spinners” from continuing printing garbage. After all, if these articles produce value to the reader (e.g. by surfacing data in a more digestible way), then the end result is net-good.

I still think that articles without at least 10-15% of human touch are basically soulless even if they are packed with data. I am actively building education into the tool to push towards that outcome. But the fact that I keep thinking about ethical implications of what I am building means I am not doing enough.

That’s it. Wanted to share out loud to hear other’s perspective on the subject.