Comment by jraph
10 hours ago
> But this isn't about the iPad or the iPod -- it's about product design.
Obviously GenAI. The author time-traveled to us, stole that sentence and put it in his article. He got encoding issues on blogspot so he typed the dash himself.
im thinking about making a hackernews but only for articles written before 2021 (or so).
The underlying problem of distinguishing honest contributors from AI hustlers is quite hard, but worthwhile to solve properly.
Maybe there is a way to reduce incentives for AI hustlers to join a certain platform, while attracting honest contributors. But even honest contributors might have a bad day or a new project and suddenly they're out in promotion mode.
Sadly I don’t believe ai slop is a solvable issue - we will never be able to filter out AI slop, because it is indistinguishable from human slop (and AI used right could be better than what that person could produce otherwise, eg fixing spelling and language).
I think the real problem is just trash content - content I could produce without AI in almost as quickly. The solution is probably more about determining if the content is interesting and well written, no matter who wrote it or how.
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Good catch!