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Too AI; Didn't Read

111 points · 113 comments · rfonseca

  1. tptacek · · focus · HN ↗
    While I agree with the sentiment, this:

    If you couldn't bother to read it, why should I?

    doesn't follow. You don't know that they didn't read it! Only that they didn't write it. If the point of things like this is to be careful, then be careful.

    1. furyofantares · · focus · HN ↗
      If someone sends me LLM output that they read and thought was fine, then that's OK with me.

      They might be wrong and it's not fine, and I have a few people I know who have a much higher tolerance than I do for LLM outputs, and I'm aware of that when they send them to me and I often reject it.

      But it's a totally different category than someone who only skimmed what they sent me.

      If someone sends me something they read and digested and think it's good, but I don't think it is, then I'm not upset with them. If someone sends me something without that first step, then I am.

      (Of course they could tell me they didn't read it, and that's fine too, I can choose to read it or not.)

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