alt Hacker NewsI think a big part of it is that we're trying to decide if a piece of text is worth spending the time and effort to read it.
If we know the text is hand-authored, then we have a signal that at least one person believed the content was important enough to put meaningful effort into creating it. That's a sign it might be worth reading.
If it's LLM-authored, then it might still be useful, or it might be complete garbage. It's hard to tell because we don't know if even the "author" was willing to invest anything into it.
This exactly. Last year I got handed a big ball of work slop. Someone asked me to review this big ol' design document and I had the hardest time parsing it. It sounded right, but none of the pieces actually fit together. When I confronted the PM who gave it to me and asked if it was AI generated, they replied that "there were parts of it that were human-generated"! -_-
Anyway, I wrote a little more about that here: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2025-08-04_artifical_inanity/
Intent matters a ton when reading or writing something.