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Comment by mvkel | Hacker News Reader

Actions matter more than words. Sure, they're complaining about AI, but consuming AI content more and more.

It's a bit like people who complain that everything on the news is always bad. Everyone hates it, yet it's what everyone consumes.

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I think you're wrong. A lot of people who dislike AI in art are putting their money (and their actions) where their mouth is. They don't buy stuff done with AI, ask authors whether they use it, and ban it/kick it from their communities. I've seen it and done it.

I can't tell you whether this will be sustained in the future, but it's disingenuous to claim it doesn't happen.

> a lot

The data disagrees.

You don’t get to handwaive away without citing data.

TLDR: content is AI generated whether you think it is, or not.

https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/06/creators-toolkit-report-...

https://manuscriptreport.com/data/ai-publishing-statistics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05711

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09865

  > YouTube starts shoving AI generated shorts into my feed every time I login

  > Accidentally click every once in a while or out of perverse curiosity

Tech Industry logic: revealed preference shows that despite user's "legacy content preference signals" via ad partners, AI slop clickthrough has increased 500% this month, increase recommendations to 3/4 of timeline surface accordingly. Their hypocrisy has also been noted.

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