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Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

2 points| linotype | 5 months ago

Recently I received a lot of negative feedback from a few HNers about an AI summary I posted about a complex immigration concept (changes to non-Immigrant visas in the US). The post received a number of upvotes but the comments were negative from Anti-AI folks. I’ve seen a number of negative posts about AI here as well. Would there be any interest in a static site that would regularly scan the public HN posts from their API and generate AI summaries of the content without a comment section?

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3np|5 months ago

No. And it's not just "anti-AI folks" who consider it spam and noise to copy-paste LLM summaries into a discussion forum.

vunderba|5 months ago

Why not just go full-on dystopia and make a slackernews.com site that is an exact mirror of the submissions from HN api, and then populate them with entirely chatbot generated comment sections?

linotype|5 months ago

There would be no comments, just a summary of the contents of the post with a link to post.

minimaxir|5 months ago

The main reason your comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160084) got downvoted was because you gave a summary without disclosing it's AI-generated, which made other users upset.

But even if you did disclose, it's still against HN rules, as other people in that thread told you. You commented "they’re free to delete it. I think it adds value", but as you've seen the community disagrees.

ForHackernews|5 months ago

Why? Anyone who wanted that could copy-paste into chatgpt or install a browser extension to do it for them.

linotype|5 months ago

That creates a ton of traffic to LLMs for the same summary. Why not have one person do it and post it?

MilnerRoute|5 months ago

In addition to everything else, this is bad for all web publishers.

No matter whose link is being shared on Hacker News... This would siphon away some traffic -- all the people who now just read the AI summary, without clicking through to the article.