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The author is a person and they get to decide what they want out of life. Even if you disagree. If you get to decide how they live their life, can I decide how you live yours?

Why wouldn't you want spraypainted messages which bring real value to your house?

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I mean, if you wrote an article like "the whole premise of disallowing people to spray-paint your house is daft"...

The real point isn't that they're "obligated" to allow AI-generated comments, but that they're being something of a hypocrite.

They aren't contradictary. A better analogy would be if they wrote an article like "the whole premise of banning spraypaint is daft", they still wouldn't want random strangers spraypainting their bedroom.

"Dogs should be legal to have as pets" yet "I don't own a dog"

"Banning sushi is daft" yet "I don't want sushi smeared on my house"

"Checking for human writing is daft" yet "I don' want strangers to be able to SSH to my webserver and edit the HTML files with their comments"

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