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Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?
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?
- vunderba 1y agoWhy 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?
- 3np 1y agoNo. And it's not just "anti-AI folks" who consider it spam and noise to copy-paste LLM summaries into a discussion forum.
- ForHackernews 1y agoWhy? Anyone who wanted that could copy-paste into chatgpt or install a browser extension to do it for them.
- linotype 1y agoThat creates a ton of traffic to LLMs for the same summary. Why not have one person do it and post it?
- minimaxir 1y agoIf there were a actual demand for that, Y Combinator could implement something similar to Google AI Overview that automatically summarizes each post, which would strongly discourages people from actually reading the articles and giving thoughtful insights.
- linotype 1y agoThat would be the idea of the static page. Save people time from reading an article they aren’t actually interested in.
- minimaxir 1y agoPeople can already do that from the submission headline.
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- minimaxir 1y agoInstead of low-effort ad hominems, which are also against the HN guidelines, you should read the blog posts. One of my recent posts which was highly upvoted on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897320) demonstrates how I don't actually use LLMs all that much for my writing and only use them for specific use cases where they objectively add value, including my work at BuzzFeed.
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- minimaxir 1y agoThe main reason your comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160084 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.
- linotype 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Not according to the guidelines and the upvotes the comment received.
- minimaxir 1y agoThe guidelines are out of date and they don't mention anything for or against AI comments. Having your comment flagged makes the number of upvotes irrelevant. The search thread you were linked to (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=author%3Adang%20generated%20comments&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) are comments from dang, the head moderator of HN. His word is the law.
- MilnerRoute 1y agoIn 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.