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Comment by Wpnx330 | Hacker News Reader

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"I believe what I said at the start, that if something has value, a person will be willing to spend time on it." so, we have common ground.

I think only way we really differ is that I don't believe in preventing others from seeing AI writing because I saw it and decided it doesn't have value for me. Instead, I leave it to them to decide. I let the "great filter" of quality do its job.

My point from the start was. People flag content generated by AI as bad, when they don't even read the content themselves to determine if it is bad. It's a bias reaction. they are trying to curb the tide of AI use. The reality is, they can't. What they can do, is decide for themselves if what they see is valuable or not, and react accordingly. the truly bad stuff will fail. the good stuff will succeed.

Though, a few hours ago my original belief was it may take a little while before people who insta-reject AI writing are fooled into thinking the writing was done by a human... but it would seem based on other comments in this thread, people already can't tell what is written by people or llm.

That seems far more concerning. based solely on the other comment, I bet somewhere out there, people who use no AI at all and are getting labeled as AI writers and auto blocked by those individuals with their anti-AI guard up.

Just to level set, I didn’t flag or downvote the original post or any comments. I didn’t click the link, so I made the choice for myself, but didn’t try to make the choice for anyone else.

I’m opting out of AI content where it makes sense for me, and when I can tell, but I am fully aware that trying to make it my own personal mission to stop AI is not possible and a fool’s errand. I vote with my attention and dollars, that’s the best I can do. If enough people think slop is slop, maybe it won’t be worth producing and people will back off, but I’m not counting on that either. I’m mostly expecting to withdraw more and more from the internet and shift more into the real world, which is probably a good and healthy thing.

Not capitalizing your sentences does make it look like you told an AI to do that to appear more human… or that you’re doing it on purpose so people don’t accuse you of using AI in the comments. A lot of systems automatically capitalize the first letter of a sentence, and people on HN generally use proper capitalization and grammar, so it’s weird to see it all (or mostly) lowercase. That coupled with a post about AI, by someone who is all-in on AI and trying to convince others, it’s not a stretch for people to think you’re using AI for everything to prove a point.

I had some people say I comment I made sounded like AI a few weeks ago. When I wrote it, I knew it sounded AI-ish, but it was a bit of a tack-on that I thought was needed for clarification, and to write it differently would have meant rewriting the whole paragraph. Ironically, I likely would have never thought to phrase it the way it did if it wasn’t for the patterns seen in AI responses. So I think that’s a real problem too. Even if someone doesn’t use AI for a thing, their thoughts and style maybe be influenced by it, which will make them sound more like AI. I think professional writers might be wise to avoid using AI chats all together, to avoid picking up AI habits. Similar to how some bands will lock themselves away so they aren’t influenced by other music while trying to make an album.

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