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This is an AI-generated essay about AI. And I know what the rebuttal is going to be, but I'm getting older and it's really hard for me to keep up with all the AI essays on HN. To streamline the concept of online engagement, maybe I could have AI read and respond?...

As you engage with this blog post, let me ask you this: is that the future you want? Where HN is just an Clawdbook-style playground for agents? Or do you favor a future where AI generates an infinite number of blog posts, but we're expending human resources to read them and engage? If it doesn't matter if there's human effort behind it, what's the end game for online communities?

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A simple version might be that we share or upvote posts if we think they're good or say something that seems true to us, and we don't share them if they don't appeal to us. Basically, "death of the author."

But that's not going to work very well for journalism. Sharing evidence requires trust. Maybe strangers will find it harder to prove that they are for real, and we'll go back to established brands that supposedly adhere to journalistic standards and do some vetting?

Sadly, I think most people don't care about journalistic standards. They will just share things that they agree with, however flimsy the evidence.

That's already true for certain subjects on Hacker News. People can make up anything like they like about designated villians.

> Sadly, I think most people don't care about journalistic standards. They will just share things that they agree with, however flimsy the evidence.

We need a better term for this, because journalists are precisely the people exhibiting the least amount of standards named by their profession. It's the big part of why blogosphere and early social media became popular in the first place - because on the Internet, you had a good chance someone who wrote something actually cared about it being true, unlike in journalism.

I’m normally very sensitive to this and didn’t pick this up in my initial (partial) read. But yes I think you are right and gptzero is dead certain. It’s definitely one of the most readable AI works I’ve come across.

You are probably correct. We will have to meet like minded people and talk again like barbarians. Too much slop too little time.

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