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by brokenodo2 hours ago |
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upvoteby hankbond2 hours ago|
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I have had to stop commenting this because it would end up on 50% of the posts here. I really wish we could flag prose as ai-generated on here and just filter it out.
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upvoteby hamdingers15 minutes ago|
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Drives me nuts that comments are held to a higher standard than submissions.

HN is for conversation between humans[1] (about AI generated blogspam, apparently)

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

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upvoteby mannanj29 seconds ago|
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Meta recently added a filter as a requirement for posts on Facebook. if it was ai generated, you are required to check off a box for that on your posts.

I've been asking for that for some time.

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upvoteby dgellow1 hours ago|
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Don’t stop commenting about it, if there is something we (the readers) can do is ensure it is seen as uncool to post slop content
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upvoteby serf9 minutes ago|
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fine but please realize that also just pushes people away from caring about the comment section at all, too.

I can only read so many (either pro OR against) ".. IT'S AI! ! !" comments before skipping the thread. I can't be the only one.

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upvoteby gr_norm2 hours ago|
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LinkedIn (of all places!) announced a button for flagging this recently: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hsrinivasan1_ai-slop-is-a-top...

How well it would work on this site, I'm not sure.

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upvoteby speedgoose1 hours ago|
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If it works, it’s going to be the best feature introduced by a social network in a long time. Incredible that it comes from LinkedIn.
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upvoteby hankbond1 hours ago|
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Next up, LinkedIn starts using this feedback to train a classifier. They then announce an officially approved "not slop" classification only for LinkedIn Gold member posts. The classified posts have a wider reach due to everyone filtering out AI slop. Non-members automatically get bucketed in with the slop bc they don't pay to have the verified classifier run on them.
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upvoteby serf8 minutes ago|
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seems like at that point it'd be a bigger benefit for LinkedIn to provide the one and only model trained to subvert the human capability to detect slop using that new negative corpus.

then we're all screwed I guess. lol

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upvoteby physix1 hours ago|
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Better would have been to offer a button to flag something that does NOT seem like AI slop on LinkedIn.
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upvoteby Oras50 minutes ago|
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If there is an action on AI slop on LI, it will end up with almost no posts at all
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upvoteby trollbridge1 hours ago|
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upvoteby mrkstu34 minutes ago|
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I'm getting somewhat conflicted. There is a Twitter account I follow that has great takes and lots of deeply personal posts... BUT he obviously uses an LLM in his writing pipeline somewhere. Too many AIisms scattered about to ignore.

I'm not thrilled with it, but he is obviously using it to improve his writing overall- to communicate some great ideas that are personal and germane. I've decided that being too inflexible serves no one. If it is true slop, I'll not revisit the writer in the future- if they are using AI to polish writing that at its core is a unique voice, I'll accept it and learn to live with it...

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upvoteby arjie1 hours ago|
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Cloudflare blogs are not meant to be human-read, AFAIK. They're raw material meant to be fed into an agent to be filtered down. I rarely read the contents because they are usually word-expanded to a greater degree than an article from The Atlantic.
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upvoteby dgellow1 hours ago|
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That’s disappointing, in the past cloudflare had some of the best engineering blog articles
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upvoteby arjie39 minutes ago|
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I don't disagree, but at some point in the last year they ended up severely word-expanded. So in a revealed sense, they are no longer meant for human consumption except for those who don't significantly value their own time. There is very little information in the post that an agent can't pull for you:

* they use quantized models

* they quantize KV cache

* they have a cache tagging mechanism to prevent cache misuse (neat)

The agent can extract numbers without filler prose as well.

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upvoteby colingauvin24 minutes ago|
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Came here to comment this.
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