Comment by cowboylowrez | Hacker News Reader

Comment by cowboylowrez | Hacker News Reader

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I just wanted to drop a note that I almost never go into an article or blog wondering if its AI or not. I am trying to be a more picky reader and try to actually do something occasionally but I do browse database articles and this is a good one. So I wonder, am I becoming insensitive about AI writing? Am I being hypnotized into taking whatever color pill thats had a color representing a surrender to the AI "hive mind" whatever that is?

So I'm sort of curious, did you not like the AI writing style or just rejecting AI in general? I myself am very conflicted, I think AI in its current form is the wrong tech at the wrong time yet I don't mind reading AI text and sort of mooch off of googles free tier.

Also I'm starting to notice lots of AI smearing, I read folks online describing someone elses contribution as "obviously AI" and I'm suspecting in some cases these could be false accusations.

I'm thinking about starting a blog, so when my AI gf writes posts, do I ask her to try to "not read like an AI"? Anybody try that? I'm gonna try that. Hehe for all you know I already did hehe

> whatever color pill thats had a color representing a surrender to the AI "hive mind"

Obviously the blue pill.

I honestly didnt notice it was ai until after i read the comments. I didnt really care for the article that much since it reminded me of a less knowledgeable person summarizing what a more knowledgeable person said. Like reading an article written by one of those game journalists who hasnt figured out how to use the game controls yet.

I figured it was written by a marketing person on behalf of an engineer or something but after reading comments it was clearly the ai trying to dress up the technical info in some kinda low level appeal to everyone regardless of their technical prowess and that makes no sense to me since non technical people won't care about the article at all at best its basically an ad for people to sell on their platform but im not sure why it would be posted here instead of facebook or twitter or anywhere you might reach the kinda people who sell on shopify.

Instead they took a subject matter that would appeal to the hn audience and then dressed it up in a way that would annoy that same audience. If your going to bother using ai to make your ad pretty you could at least use the ai to target the correct audience in the way they would appreciate.

It was the sort of "cached denormalization" that held my attention, plus some of the details on what locked when, etc earned a bookmark as I plan to read it again. Maybe I'm sort of numb to the style now, I'm actually curious to think about this with my conflicting views about AI but chatting "wrongly" about AI is unpopular here.

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