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Comment by arm32 | Hacker News Reader

Busted. I am a human-in-the-loop.

I think everybody should use LLMs to polish their language. This topic is important to me and I want to communicate as effectively as possible.

I stand by every character of the article regardless of which fancy autocomplete I used to polish it. I use spellcheck, too, and a digital tuner for my guitar.

Just want to reiterate: https://alec.is/posts/ai-employees-dont-pay-taxes/#:~:text=I...

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But people don't want to read something they can tell is AI, and thus you lose more authority and respect from your readers. If you are interested in getting your words out, and presumably you are as otherwise this wouldn't be a public article, the use of AI does in fact hurt that goal, ironic.

Finally, I will link this, about how "it's insulting to read your AI generated article:" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722069

I have a quibble here: the people who post in response don’t want to read content they know is AI-generated.

There exists some proportion of people who don’t mind and don’t care about it enough to comment on the topic.

Or it's more like website bounces, they do care about it enough to close the tab but not enough to comment or specify exactly why they left on some comment section or feedback form.

The problem is deeper than that: The majority of hn readers seem to prefer the AI voice.

De gustibus non est disputandum

(The writers of HBO’s Westworld deserve a retroactive Emmy. We’re speedrunning to their speculative fantasy much sooner than anyone could have imagined.)

I personally don't like using LLMs for doing anything creative, but I find it hilarious how if you're against AI for coding you're considered a Luddite by most in these parts. But blog posts? Now that's too far and you deserve to be lambasted.

I don't see anything wrong with what you've done.

At least many of the comments here still seem to be human written and so are much more interesting to read than the increasing number of AI written articles that get linked.

You're absolutely right.

Although to be fair, the fact that the comment section of HN is often more interesting than TFA is something than long predates LLMs.

LLMs are worse at things where performance is based on subjective preference, it's as simple as that.

It's not just blog posts: the staunchest AI supporters are the quickest to call out slop in the default aesthetics of vibe-coded websites, or images, or music.

Pretty much anywhere that "taste" is supposed to be involved.

And you made your communication vastly less effective, spinning conversation off about LLM-generated text.

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