alt Hacker NewsYou're touching on an important point. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342616.
All this stuff is in flux. I thought a lot about whether to add the "edited" bit - but it may change. What I deliberately left out was anything about the articles and projects that get submitted here. There's a lot of turbulence in that area too, but we don't yet have clarity, or even an inkling, of how to settle that one.
Edit: what I mean is this: while most of those submissions aren't very interesting, some really are. Here's an example from earlier today:
Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338091
How do we close the aperture for the lame stuff while opening wider for the good stuff? That is far from clear.
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I wasn't sure whether it was an omission or an unintended gap, as the guideline specifically points to "comments". So it seems AI generated/edited posts are fine. Strange, because both can be flagged/downvoted if it was to be left with that.
Please rethink the “edited” bit on accessibility grounds.
I have a kid with severe written language issues, and the utilisation of speech to text with a LLM-powered edit has unlocked a whole world that was previously inaccessible.
I would hate to see a culture that discourages AI assistance.
Do the guidelines also disallow comments along the lines of "according to <AI>, <blah>"? (I ask this given that "according to a Google search, <blah>" is allowed, AFAIK.)