[gokhan]

Just like in blind wine tasting, I suspect people’s perceptions (including many here) would be very different if the author hadn’t told us it was created by AI.

There’s a noticeable negativity on HN toward AI when it comes to coding, writing, or anything similar as if these people have been using AI for the past 30 years and have reached some elevated state of mind where they clearly see it's rubbish, while the rest of us mortals who’ve only been fiddling with it for the past 2.5 years can’t.

[debesyla]

Just like with mass-manufactured furniture, some of us seek hand-made items, as it feels more human, despite its flaws.

[fragmede]

Realy? Does having flawws really make four better reading? Okay, I'll admit that hurt me to right (as did that) but writing isn't furniture, and other than a couple of tells which I haven't kept pace with (eg use of the word "delve"), the problem with trying to key off of LLM generated content and decide quality, is that you can't tell if the LLM operator took three minutes to copy and pasted the whole thing (unless they accidentally leave in the prompts, which has happened, and is a dead giveaway that no one even proof skimmed it), or if they took more time with it and carefully considered the questions ChatGPT asked them as to what the writing wood (ouch!) contain.

If you made it this far, does having English mistakes like that make really make for better reading?

[bgwalter]

There has been an effort to deny all variance in human output or abilities in the last 8 years.

It works, because most humans are mediocre (including their managers). So they gang up on the productive part of the population, harness its output, launder its output and so forth.

Then they say: "See, there are no differences! We are all equal!"

[tossandthrow]

This thing is that it is not worth writing - people should consume the book directly from the LLM.

A project that would rethink the book medium into something backed by an LLM would be worth it.

[podgietaru]

Yeah? The sentiment of “why read something somebody didn’t bother to write” sort of has to be.

And when it comes to books, I find that to be a fairly compelling argument. I want my fiction to be imbibed with the experiences of the author. And I want my nonfiction to be grounded by the realities of the world around me, processed again through a human perspective.

It could be the best written book in the world, it’ll always be missing that human element.

[cheema33]

I don't understand it either. I suspect it is the fear for their own wellbeing. The fear is well placed. But the response is perplexing. The only way to deal with this challenge is to try to stay ahead of it. Not to stick your head in the sand.

[myaccountonhn]

For me its the injustice of stealing data, scrapers incurring huge costs to open source projects, companies exploiting cheap labour in labelling that data and finally the growing environmental cost that makes me not want to use LLMs.