[sampl3username]

Another "gift" from AI to the world. Another line to the long list of "minor side effects" from uncontrolled, unapollogetic corporations releasing radical technology into a world that didn't agree to it.

[dang]

Ok, but can you please not post like this to Hacker News? It just makes things worse, and it's against multiple site guidelines—these, for example:

"Please don't fulminate."

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[Cthulhu_]

TBH it was already possible before, but you'd need to either write templates or find competent low-cost ghostwriters. AI has made it easier and more accessible to do this kind of thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if the institutions or projects like CURL will create harsher measures to stop this flood of high-quality spam, like putting people on a list or requiring payment per submission.

I mean that last one isn't a bad thing, Apple did something like it years ago and I think asking for an upfront cost and having a strict (at the time) review program made it so that all apps were from serious developers and met minimum quality standards.

[aitchnyu]

Agree. Before 2010, I read a get-rich-quick affiliate marketing book telling you to use an automated tool to publish SEO spam about goldfish about to 200 blogs.

[lazide]

In Academia, this is what grad students have been sucked into doing for decades.

[spwa4]

Are you seriously blaming corporations for advancing science and how bad and inconvenient that is for some people?

[sampl3username]

Yes I do indeed think companies should not be able to vastly reshape the world at will.

[newsclues]

Blame the people not the tools.

[sampl3username]

Technology is not neutral, nor it does exist in a vacuum. It is not neutral due to the fact that humans are not impassible wielders of technology.

[chvid]

But AI can fix this.