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Comment by sharkweek | Hacker News Reader

Funny - I had ChatGPT document some stuff for me this week and asked which responses I preferred as well.

Didn’t bother reading either of them, just selected one and went on with my day.

If it were me I would have set up a “hey do you mind if we give you two results and you can pick your favorite?” prompt to weed out people like me.

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I'm surprised how many people claim to do this. You can just not select one.

I think it’s somewhat natural and am not personally surprised. It’s easy to quickly select an option, that has no consequence, compared to actively considering that not selecting something is an option. Not selecting something feels more like actively participating than just checking a box and moving on. /shrug

We -- the people who live in front of a computer -- have been training ourselves to avoid noticing annoyances like captchas, advertising, and GDPR notices for quite a long time.

We find what appears to be the easiest combination "Fuck off, go away" buttons and use them without a moment of actual consideration.

(This doesn't mean that it's actually the easiest method.)

I can't even believe how many times in a day I frustratedly think "whatever, go away!"

I wonder if they down-weight responses that come in too fast to be meaningful, or without sufficient scrolling.

That’s fine. Your random click would be balanced by someone else randomly clicking

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