AI writing is worse on the merits: it is lower quality and has concerning externalities associated with its production.

The attention economics are bad more than anything else. LLM articles ask us to put more time into reading it than the LLM put into writing it. Actually committing time to production is the minimum bar which suggests something is worth our time in a world where so much is already vying for our attention.

an article written by an AI about fonts, when the AI fundamentally does not look at rendered text, is inherently without merit

Who would want to read about the thoughts of an AI?

All it knows about your thoughts are from what text you already fed it with, and it will end up adding things you don't intend or agree with. Even just telling it to fix grammar it can subtly do this.

It reads like a dog wrote it. Whether the writer is terrible or LLM being terrible, get this shit out of here

We need an update to the HN posting guidelines that addresses this. We already have:

    Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.