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Banditoz • yesterday at 2:48 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Why? Why should we give up being critical of things we read?


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cadamsdotcom • yesterday at 4:08 PM

Criticising something for sounding like an LLM is like criticising a gas-guzzler for being blue.

iugtmkbdfil834 • yesterday at 2:55 PM

Because being critical in those instances is more like going to mcdonalds and complaining about burger not being cooked to your specs. No one says you can't, but it does get tiring.

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yodon • yesterday at 3:02 PM

>Why? Why should we give up being critical of things we read?

Remember how pre-AI everyone used to complain about hating how this or that website hijacked scrolling? Countless words were written about hijacked scrollbars and back buttons. Zero conversations were improved by the comments and zero websites were changed as a result. It was just complaining.

"Boo hoo AI" is the same kind of low-effort, complain about everything while adding nothing to the conversation post.

Instead, try to say something more substantive than "I found a word or phrase that I think was AI."

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