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ImPostingOnHNtoday at 1:27 PM1 replyview on HN

> because 70 of 140 comments under this submission are owned by this thread about AI.

This is an effect, rather than a cause. The root cause is often (but obviously not always) that the submission was written with AI to begin with. In instances like this, it is useful to focus on the root cause, not a proximal effect.

> And this is usually not what you want when you click on an interesting submission

More importantly: overly-verbose LLM output is usually not what you want when you click on what you thought would be an interesting submission.

In general, reading comments written by actual humans about how a submission is AI, is preferable to reading a long submission written by AI. If I wanted to talk to AI, I can do that without HN. HN is where I come to discuss things with people.


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feelameetoday at 7:02 PM

> In general, reading comments written by actual humans about how a submission is AI, is preferable to reading a long submission written by AI

Not as in general as you think.

I don't care who writes comments/article - be you human, LLM, anthropomorphic android, nexus five or six, or my neighbors dog. It definitely doesn't affect anything - if your thoughts are interesting to me, I will be interested in reading them.

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