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I don't want to read what you didn't write

1070 points · 460 comments · mooreds

  1. blandcoffee · · focus · HN ↗
    I appreciate the direction of this article, and commend the author on publishing work, but the first sentence in the first paragraph is exactly what they lament.

    > A pattern I see is that people use AI to build something new, then they use AI to retrospectively summarize what they have already built into a design document. Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing.

    1. niccl · · focus · HN ↗
      FWIW Pangram [0] "We believe that this entire text is human-written."

      I've only just discovered pangram, but I've seen it referred to a few times in HN recently wit nothing obviously pejorative about it. Take it with all required grains of salt, though

      0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pangram.com&#x2F;dashboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pangram.com&#x2F;dashboard

      1. breezybottom · · focus · HN ↗
        AI detectors are useless.
        1. pastel8739 · · focus · HN ↗
          I’ll present with as much evidence as you do that I’ve heard pangram is quite reliable. I believe that have studies on their website.
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