Ask HN: What % of HN is now AI-generated?
I promise you that the title was not AI-generated. And also, I promise you (but most of you won't believe me) that all the comments and submissions I did so far have been typed by hand. But besides this, the question remains: I have a sense that the % is non-zero, and perhaps it is higher than 50%. What do you think?
I guarantee that every one of my past posts and every post in the future I make will be 0% AI generated. I know however there is no way to guarantee this from the outside without some sort of biometric ledger tied to every post I make.
If you can't tell, does it matter?
https://youtu.be/kaahx4hMxmw?si=xpDPAdAN6MCzh26g
Edit: I wonder if you've read the book - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick.
It's a dystopian sci-fi novel that was published in the 1960s centered on advanced androids that are so sophisticated they are nearly indistinguishable from humans in appearance and behavior.
> Edit: I wonder if you've read the book - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick.
Yes, I've read it. I am a fan :)
Yes, it matters to most people. The purpose of HN is conversation between humans, not conversation between machines.
It should matter to you. When you cease to care you give up your humanity to the forces that want to use AI to dehumanize and control you. It should matter to you because humans should matter to you more than machines.
And no, communication and relationships between humans aren't exactly the same. That was probably the reader's first instinctive response. If so, that knee-jerk false equivalence is part of the programming. If you think of yourself as nothing but an information processing algorithm no different than the algorithms that run this forum then you abrogate any ethical or moral imperative you have, or that anyone has towards you. If you're just a thing whose only purpose is to process information and calories into value for capitalism, why does it matter how anyone treats you, or how you treat anyone else? Why do your thoughts matter? To whom should they matter?
Even in a purely materialistic and deterministic universe absent any supernatural or metaphysical dimension, it's acceptable to prefer the company of humans to machines, and the expression and opinions of humans to machines. It's OK to treat humans differently than LLMs. They are - despite the narrative - actually not the same.
Even if an LLM is capable of writing compelling, factually accurate prose I don't want to have a conversation with one. I don't find the simulated life experience or opinions of an LLM interesting.
>If you can't tell, does it matter?
Uh, yeah, when "it" tells me "I did this and that" or "my experience...", it is lying to my face. Yes, it does matter. How much sociopathy are you fine with?
>advanced androids that are so sophisticated they are nearly indistinguishable from humans in appearance and behavior
Those androids have lived lives. They have seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. They watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
Without these experiences, the book and the movie wouldn't have been the same.
I know right? It's so bad, maybe you should leave.