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The critics never point this out though. They typically just find the first AI smell then proudly announce to everyone that they didn’t finish the article. It’s the new HN meta for securing upvotes with low effort.

I do generally agree though that the author should edit or rewrite completely the AI output since he clearly put a lot of effort into the thing he made itself.

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It's hard to imagine people taking the time to give a bunch of detailed helpful notes and criticism about what the AI did poorly to a person who didn't even bother to do much more than copy/paste the shitty AI output in the first place.

We're not professional editors, and this isn't a forum for aspiring writers looking to improve, we're just insulted that someone published thousands of words they didn't put any effort into while expecting others to slog through their slop.

Yes it would indeed be much better to avoid the bike shedding completely.

Exactly, the whole discussion is about this guy's AI slop instead of what he did. It's ridiculous. On the other hand, it's kind of expected by now.

> The critics never point this out though. They typically just find the first AI smell then proudly announce to everyone that they didn’t finish the article.

I mean, I'm the "critic" that started this thread and my comment doesn't say that, so what exactly is your problem? If it were poor writing for any other reason would you have the same kneejerk defensive reaction that you have about poor AI writing?

What’s my problem? Your low effort Redditor tier updoot seeking behavior.

What do I think you should do? Just ignore it and let people who are interested in what the guy made have a discussion. If you are so keen to discuss AI use in blog posts, make a separate post about it and have an on-topic discussion rather than starting a circle jerk in every other post.

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