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Comment by solarpunk_enthu | Hacker News Reader

There is a growing body of evidence that people prefer ai generated text when its not labeled as ai generated. However given the same text with ai generated label, all of the sudden people prefer human written text. Just a fun fact about our human biases towards "made by ai" disclosure.

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I do not know how accurate that is. Assuming it is true, I think it's a similar phenomenon that happens with CGI.

Tell people it's CGI, they won't be enthusiastic about it. But tell them it's "practical effects" and they will absolutely love it. Even when the movie has even more CGI than average... they will still praise it, and will even praise the CGI scenes they failed to identify as computer generated.

I can't claim to be able to detect LLM writing with 100% accuracy, but when I do notice it, it's very off-putting. Some claim that's because it's bad writing and that I would be fine with a higher-quality generated text, but that isn't true. I dislike LLM writing purely because it's generated by a machine, not because it's bad (though the bad quality does make it more jarring). In my opinion, handing other people something that a machine generated for you and asking them to read it is extremely disrespectful. I want to read what the human wrote, imperfections and all, because humans have intrinsic value that makes their work matter to me. The product of a machine, on the other hand, is just a facsimile trying to appear like a human made it, and that holds no interest at all to me no matter how good the content would be were it man made.

Please point me to this growing body of evidence

I mean if you run this as the usual social psychology experiment you already know what answer you'll get right? Pay 20 college students a couple bucks to review a set of texts, some human written, some AI written, and score how much they "liked" each text. Make the texts representative (ergo half the human texts are fucking awful, all the AI texts are, well, AI texts), and there you go, evidence! People actually prefer AI writing!

Or, of course, make the human texts excellent blog posts that fit the readers' area of expertise and there you go, evidence! People hate AI writing! The HN hivemind was right all along!

was your comment written by an LLM to try to justify itself :p

I'd like to see this evidence. I have very limited time and attention. LLMs are usually used to take the user's prompt and flower it up to 10x to 100x fluff. Just give me the prompt.

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