alt Hacker News> If I do rewrite everything myself, then it's evidence of deceptiveness... despite being asked by multiple people to do that
I don't know who asked you to do it. I wouldn't have done it. Personally, the original intent matters far more to me. You intended to submit an AI-generated article, defending AI, to be read by humans. Anything short of taking the article down and rewriting the entire thing from scratch doesn't meaningfully change that.
> Additionally, my process is often giving it exactly what I want to say, more or less, and having it HTML-format it and insert the templated numbers and UI widgets around that text.
Sorry but you're just further proving my point here. You are so deeply invested in AI that even just manually writing some English text into a static HTML file is something you consider to be below you.
Imagine going back in time 5 years and telling someone: "In the future, nobody uses text editors. On the rare occasion that we actually want to write something to a text file verbatim, we instead recite the text to a complex artificial intelligence algorithm that uses large amounts of computing power to process said text and then recite back a command that writes the text to a file. Sometimes the algorithm decides to be a smartass and change our words or add an extra quip, but that's all part of the fun."
> That's not ignoring the bias, that's literally restating that you think the bias is there.
I was referring to the bias within the actual text of the article vs the inherent bias displayed by the very concept of an AI-generated article defending AI. Passages like these:
> The thread did not stop at words. As is typical for anti-AI users, it eventually escalated to fantasies of violence
Make it fairly obvious that you went into this project with the primary goal of proving such people wrong, possibly backed by a sense of moral superiority relative to a few weirdos on the internet who took things too far (such individuals are present in every online discussion that gets big enough, and their actions do not represent the whole).
> And you're so committed to your preconceived notions that anything made with AI must be bad, wrong, or not worth your time
"Bad" or "wrong" may be subjective, but it's definitely not worth my time, no. If you didn't consider it worth your time to write it, why do you believe it's worth someone else's time to read it? Again, it doesn't matter if you went back to rewrite parts of it after being criticized, as that doesn't change the original intent.
Submitting an AI generated article and expecting meaningful human responses only makes sense if you consider your own time to be worth more than that of others. Do you?
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Okay, so let me get this straight. Because I used AI to, among other things, write the prose of the original draft of this article, all of the days of effort researching and carefully thinking through the metrics I would use, and the methodologies to analyze them, and rewriting the entire analysis multiple times from scratch based on specifically asking people in my life who are qualified in statistics what I should do and trying to come up with the fairest analysis I could with the little data available doesn't matter at all? The post just have some sort of essential AI nature that makes it low effort just because one aspect of it didn't have sufficient effort put into it for you personally?
And once it's originally posted, it doesn't matter the great extent I go to address metrics and methodological critiques in order to ensure that the data is as robust and helpful as possible. And the effort in writing and refining my prose and the organization of the report in response to people's complaints and criticisms because I do value their time. And when people told me the AI prose was bad, I spent two hours to to make sure that it was something people would want to read, that doesn't matter at all? It's only the original intention that matters. So you just have this arbitrary cutoff point for what counts towards my intentions in the post and my character. No allowance for learning or adaptation, and the fact that I'm clearly committed to putting a lot of effort into making this something that is useful and pleasant to read for people, I just didn't do it for the first draft originally, doesn't matter, only the original version matters?
And more than that, you're not going to actually deal with the substance of the issue, the actual calculations and methodology and conclusions that I came to, instead, the only semi-substantive critique you're going to make of the post is to tone police me and dance around the real issues, as if you're afraid of ever touching them?
The best argument you could make that my bias actually influenced my conclusions would be to point into the methodology and metrics where I did that. I made it all extremely open and transparent and auditable both by describing it in extreme detail in the post and by providing all of my source code and the ability to build the database it runs on from scratch. If there was an actual flaw or bias that my intentions going into this created your biggest possible Smackdown, your best weapon in your arsenal would be to actually point that out. But instead, again, you're just tone policing me. but a polemical style in the presentation of an objective statistical analysis does not in the least undercut its accuracy. Have you considered that my polemic became so fiery, in fact, precisely because I ran the tests and found how non-existent the evidence was for this outrage and that's what made me angry? No, you didn't because you saw some words that hurt your feelings and now you won't listen to facts.
i feel like OP put their money where their mouth was. they dug in and did the analysis. they also capitulated and rewrote the lest interesting and easiest part of the post; the prose.
i also am seeing them engage aptly with constructive criticism and adapting the material while handily dispatching the non-constructive critiques. most of which amounts to a colossal missing-of-the-point.
they have made no out of proportion claims, no non-recreate’able analysis, used exactly the correct tools, and, frankly have addressed all of your points
i am not sure you’ll agree with anything i’ve said either so feel free to misunderstand me too