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kstenerudtoday at 12:32 PM5 repliesview on HN

These are all symptoms of the adjustment period following a disruptive technology.

Eventually it'll be perfectly normal to use AI-generated content (and use AI to summarize it), and nobody will bat an eye.


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inigyoutoday at 12:36 PM

Yes. Just like, shortly after the web, it became normal for 99% of content to be moneygrubbing adspam SEOslop. Normal doesn't mean good.

j16sdiztoday at 12:47 PM

Just like Taboola. They are everywhere now.

GPersontoday at 12:54 PM

The normalization process for social media involved it stabilizing in a place where a huge number of people know it’s terrible for you.

noosphrtoday at 12:39 PM

Eventually well formatted blogs won't be a symbol of effort and no one will care.

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AlienRobottoday at 12:50 PM

I think by "disruptive" you mean "annoying"

There is negative value in wasting vertical space to put an irrelevant prompt output in an article. It makes me question the sanity of whoever is doing this stuff. Doubly so if they actually think they dumped a bunch of AI-generated text on the internet just for people to AI-summarize it. Like... what are they DOING?